Incident Response 101: What to Do When You Get Hacked
A complete introduction to incident response — the NIST lifecycle, detection commands, containment procedures, recovery steps, and how to run a post-incident review.
Incident Response
Real-world incident response case studies and playbooks
CVE and Vulnerability Management: A Beginner’s Guide to Tracking and Patching Security Flaws
A beginner’s guide to CVEs, CVSS scoring, and vulnerability management — including practical scanning tools like Trivy, OpenVAS, and Nuclei, with a simple remediation workflow.
Social Engineering Attacks: How Hackers Exploit Human Psychology
Learn how social engineering attacks exploit human psychology — with real-world examples from Twitter and Uber breaches — and the controls that actually defend against them.
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule: How to Never Lose Your Data Again
Learn the 3-2-1 backup rule and how to implement it with practical scripts and tools for Windows, macOS, and Linux — including protection against ransomware.
Malware 101: Types, How They Spread, and How to Protect Yourself
Learn the different types of malware — ransomware, trojans, spyware, and more — how they spread, and the practical steps to protect yourself and recover if infected.
How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Attacks: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to recognizing phishing emails, texts, and calls — with real examples, red flags to spot, and step-by-step instructions for what to do if you get targeted.
Complete Ransomware Defense Playbook: Prevention, Detection, and Recovery
A complete ransomware defense guide covering the full attack kill chain, prevention controls, Splunk detection rules, and a step-by-step incident response plan for when ransomware hits.
IoT Security: Mirai Botnet, Shodan Scanning, and How to Secure Smart Devices
How the Mirai botnet took down half the internet using default passwords, how to find vulnerable IoT devices with Shodan, and a practical guide to network segmentation and IoT hardening.
The MOVEit Breach: How Cl0p Stole Data from 2,700 Organizations in One Weekend
How the Cl0p ransomware group exploited CVE-2023-34362 in MOVEit Transfer over a single holiday weekend, compromising government agencies, airlines, and healthcare providers worldwide.
The Equifax Breach: How One Unpatched Vulnerability Exposed 147 Million Americans
How a CVSS 10.0 Apache Struts vulnerability that had a patch available went unpatched for 78 days at Equifax — resulting in the largest financial data breach in US history.