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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
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    Xavier Briand
    Mar 27, 2019
    netcat — quick reference

    netcat — quick reference

    Arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens
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    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”
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    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
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    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…
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    Xavier Briand
    Mar 6, 2019
    CIS Benchmarks

    CIS Benchmarks

    “Configuration guidelines for various technology groups to safeguard systems against today’s evolving cyber threats”
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    Xavier Briand
    Mar 5, 2019
    Home lab: the server

    Home lab: the server

    A Dell PowerEdge R900
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    Xavier Briand
    Mar 5, 2019
    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 4&5— Course notes

    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 4&5— Course notes

    Networking
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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…
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    Feb 5, 2019
    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 3 — Course notes

    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 3 — Course notes

    Cryptography & Digital Certificate
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    Feb 5, 2019
    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 1&2 — Course notes

    RITx: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Unit 1&2 — Course notes

    Computing Security Concepts and Problems
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    Feb 5, 2019
    A vocabulary list

    A vocabulary list

    A vocabularity list on the subject of risk management and cybersecurity.
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    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.
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    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?
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    Jan 29, 2019
    Leveling up in Bash #1: Commands & Arguments

    Leveling up in Bash #1: Commands & Arguments

    How do I give bash instructions?
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    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.
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    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…
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    Jan 26, 2019
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