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My Journey into Cybersecurity
My experience trailblazing the practice of CYBERSEC.
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Nmap — quick reference
Nmap — quick reference
Network Mapper: Network exploration tool and security / port scanner
Xavier Briand
Mar 27, 2019
netcat — quick reference
netcat — quick reference
Arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens
Xavier Briand
Mar 27, 2019
Book notes: ‘American Kingpin` by Nick Bilton
Book notes: ‘American Kingpin` by Nick Bilton
“Nearly every character in American Kingpin seems to have wandered in from one Coen brothers movie or another”
Xavier Briand
Mar 27, 2019
Book notes: ‘We Are Anonymous’ by Parmy Olson
Book notes: ‘We Are Anonymous’ by Parmy Olson
Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Xavier Briand
Mar 19, 2019
TED2018: César Hidalgo — A bold idea to replace politicians
TED2018: César Hidalgo — A bold idea to replace politicians
César Hidalgo has a radical suggestion for fixing our broken political system: automate it! In this provocative talk, he outlines a bold…
Xavier Briand
Mar 6, 2019
CIS Benchmarks
CIS Benchmarks
“Configuration guidelines for various technology groups to safeguard systems against today’s evolving cyber threats”
Xavier Briand
Mar 5, 2019
Home lab: the server
Home lab: the server
A Dell PowerEdge R900
Xavier Briand
Mar 5, 2019
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 4&5— Course notes
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 4&5— Course notes
Networking
Xavier Briand
Mar 3, 2019
Book notes: The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace—Alexander Klimburg
Book notes: The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace—Alexander Klimburg
Klimburg explains why we underestimate the consequences of states’ ambitions to project power in cyberspace at our peril
Xavier Briand
Feb 26, 2019
Welcoming pfSense® Security Gateway in my home
Welcoming pfSense® Security Gateway in my home
Setting up a pfSense® Security Gateway upstream of a Google Wifi access point.
Xavier Briand
Feb 22, 2019
Create bootable USB key on macOS
Create bootable USB key on macOS
How to use hdiutil, diskutil and dd to create a bootable USB key from an ISO file on macOS
Xavier Briand
Feb 21, 2019
Meetup Notes: OWASP Toronto Chapter — Digital Certificates, CAs and PKI
Meetup Notes: OWASP Toronto Chapter — Digital Certificates, CAs and PKI
What do airplanes, TSA pre-check, credit cards, Windows Updates, and HTTPS all have in common? They all rely on the use of digital certs
Xavier Briand
Feb 20, 2019
Podcast notes: DtSR Episode 335 — Ranking the Adversaries — Dmitri Alperovitch, Crowdstrike
Podcast notes: DtSR Episode 335 — Ranking the Adversaries — Dmitri Alperovitch, Crowdstrike
Dmitri Alperovitch of Crowdstrike joins Rafal to talk about a brand new report that Crowdstrike is releasing.
Xavier Briand
Feb 20, 2019
TED Talk notes: The security mirage — Bruce Schneier
TED Talk notes: The security mirage — Bruce Schneier
Security is two different concepts: a feeling and the reality: you can feel secure even if you’re not; you can be secure even if you…
Xavier Briand
Feb 5, 2019
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 3 — Course notes
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 3 — Course notes
Cryptography & Digital Certificate
Xavier Briand
Feb 5, 2019
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 1&2 — Course notes
RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 1&2 — Course notes
Computing Security Concepts and Problems
Xavier Briand
Feb 5, 2019
A vocabulary list
A vocabulary list
A vocabularity list on the subject of risk management and cybersecurity.
Xavier Briand
Feb 5, 2019
CIS Risk Management Method (CIS RAM) overview
CIS Risk Management Method (CIS RAM) overview
Following the recommendation of the BHIS team, I’m diving in the twenty CIS Controls, using my household as a proxy of an organization.
Xavier Briand
Feb 4, 2019
Leveling up in Bash #2: Variables & Expansions
Leveling up in Bash #2: Variables & Expansions
How do I store and work with data?
Xavier Briand
Jan 29, 2019
Leveling up in Bash #1: Commands & Arguments
Leveling up in Bash #1: Commands & Arguments
How do I give bash instructions?
Xavier Briand
Jan 29, 2019
Podcast notes: HBR IdeaCast — Corey Phelps — The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems
Podcast notes: HBR IdeaCast — Corey Phelps — The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems
There’s this belief that because we do problem-solving so frequently and as such we would expect them to be quite good at it.
Xavier Briand
Jan 29, 2019
Where to start?
Where to start?
A while back, seeking the next podcast to listen to, I hit “subscribe” on the BHIS podcast. That led me to their blog and especially to…
Xavier Briand
Jan 26, 2019
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