Mastering Burp Suite: A Journey to Certification and Beyond Greetings, everyone! I’m back with the grandest of brooms, ready to sweep away three years’ worth of dust that’s gathered on this aging blog. Over this time, my life has seen significant changes, both personally and professionally. The most remarkable of these changes has been embracing the title of a girl-dad…
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OSWE Review (AWAE Course)
Introduction Once again I am victorious! Being completely transparent, passing that exam was hard – there were periods that totally made me doubt myself. During these times all the blogs you’ve read about people failing multiple time begins to resonate with you. Thoughts such as “who the hell do I think I am to not experience the same” start to…
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AWS Certification Trifecta
When the dust settled here’s what I was left with π Date: Monday 05/04/2020 – 1800 hrs Thoughts: “You should be embarrassed at how severely deficient you are in practical cloud knowledge.” Background This is exactly how all my journeys begin (inside my head) typically being judgmental and unfairly harsh on myself. That evening I started to research…
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Free Cyber Materials BC Of Covid
Hello Community, Really terrible times we’re living in right now. It doesn’t help to literally be right in the “thick of it”. My family and I are unaffected at the moment. Praying for humanity at this point. Anyways – there’s been a bunch of free goodies going on and I wouldn’t be proper if I didn’t attempt to put some…
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Pharm Raised Phish π π€
Life after CISSP: I had so much housekeeping that I couldn’t attend to while studying (physically and digitally). My office was a complete mess. I lost access to my switch since there was a power outage and sadly I didn’t copy running-config to startup-config. Off my switch is basically everything besides wireless. My ESXI lab, my NAS, all my Raspberry…
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Slayed CISSP
I saw this day a countless amount of times in the last two months. Typing this blog post after passing the exam, is a surreal feeling. Forecasting a goal, envisioning its completion, and driving it home is the things fairy-tales are made of. How the air smells at that time? What does it taste like? Why I deserve it? How…
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OWASP Global AppSec DC 2019 Review
ππ½ββοΈ Hello friends! It’s been quite some time since I’ve blogged – shame on me. No excuses as I can’t say I’ve been particularly busy or engaged in anything mind-blowing. The truth is I haven’t had much to write about lately & I’m not going to deliver nonsense because then I would lose your trust. I err on the side…
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PentesterAcademy Attacking and Defending AD Course Review
Lately I’ve been more busy than usual. Getting my business off the ground, work, life and other things. I’ve got to get to all the messages & of course say THANK YOU for all the well wishes and kind words. By now you probably know even with all that going on, my free time is selfishly spent exclusively on myself…
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GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) Review
New trophies !! Welcome back. What follows is my review of the SANs FOR-610 GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)Β course led by the magnificent instructor Lenny Zeltser. I intend to not only give you a day-by-day breakdown but also my thoughts, mindset and overall sentiment. But before all of that let’s rewind to Jan 2019. Fresh off of nailing…
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The Usual Suspects – Malware Snippets – Part 1
Prologue I feel like I should confess. Why? Because I’ve fought with myself for the past hour debating on how to spend this Friday evening. I 100% should be continuing my Malware Analysis Workbook to keep making steady progress in preparation for the exam. GREM should be fun, I’m looking forward to it & blogging about the entire experience. At…