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Phishing Email Triage: What to Check When Someone Reports a Suspicious Email
Read More: Phishing Email Triage: What to Check When Someone Reports a Suspicious EmailSomeone reports an email and says, “This looks weird.” You have a queue, a few minutes, and a message you should not click anything in. Where do you start?…
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Proving a Security Control Works: What to Show When You’re Asked for Evidence
Read More: Proving a Security Control Works: What to Show When You’re Asked for EvidenceYour lead asks you to show that endpoint protection is working on the company laptops. You open the console, and everything is green. Is that proof? It is a…
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Shadow AI in an Alert? How a Security Analyst Should Notice, Document, and Escalate
Read More: Shadow AI in an Alert? How a Security Analyst Should Notice, Document, and EscalateYou are working an alert and something catches your eye: an AI tool you have never heard of. Is it a problem? You do not know yet, and that…
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SOC Analyst Career Growth: How to Build Depth, Ownership, and Direction Beyond Closing Alerts
Read More: SOC Analyst Career Growth: How to Build Depth, Ownership, and Direction Beyond Closing AlertsYou have spent months closing alerts, and you are probably faster at it than when you started. So why does it feel like you are not getting anywhere? Volume…
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Your First 90 Days as a SOC Analyst: A Practical Guide
Read More: Your First 90 Days as a SOC Analyst: A Practical GuideYou finally landed your first SOC job. Congratulations, and I mean that. Now comes the part nobody really prepares you for, which is figuring out what you are supposed…
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Access Denied Troubleshooting: Find the Cause Before You Grant Admin
Read More: Access Denied Troubleshooting: Find the Cause Before You Grant AdminIf you work a help desk or you are a junior sysadmin, you will get a ticket that says access denied. Somebody is waiting, and giving them admin can…
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Security Metrics for Leadership: Which Numbers Matter?
Read More: Security Metrics for Leadership: Which Numbers Matter?If you are the person who puts together the security report for leadership, you can pull a lot of numbers out of your tools. The hard part is knowing…
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Patch Management Program: Balancing Security Risk and Production Stability
Read More: Patch Management Program: Balancing Security Risk and Production StabilityEvery patch carries two risks. If you do not apply it, a known weakness stays open. If you apply it badly, something people depend on can stop working. Anyone…
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Cybersecurity Degree or Certification? Start With the Gap You Need to Close
Read More: Cybersecurity Degree or Certification? Start With the Gap You Need to CloseIf you work in IT, maybe on a help desk, in support or as a systems administrator, and you want to move into cybersecurity, you have probably started asking…
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What Has to Happen Before You Patch a System?
Read More: What Has to Happen Before You Patch a System?Before anyone can patch a system, somebody has to answer a question that sounds almost too basic to ask: what systems do we actually have? If you work in…
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