Security

  • CISSP – Block Cipher’s Modes of Operation, Explained without the Math

    CISSP – Block Cipher’s Modes of Operation, Explained without the Math

    Somewhere in the CISSP Symmetrical Cryptography domain there’s some pages and information about something called “modes of operations” and moves on quite quickly. I know the CISSP is very surface level knowledge with the different topics but I found this to be very interesting and I wanted to dig deeper – especially because some practice…

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  • CISSP – How to own something you can’t touch

    CISSP – How to own something you can’t touch

    Now after I got much more time again on my hands, I’m back again on grinding through my CISSP prep. Every now and then a topic looks easy on the surface until you actually sit down and try to explain it. One of those areas was the Intellectual Property part of this study session. Copyright,…

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  • Azure Private Subnets: The End of implicit Outbound Internet Access

    Azure Private Subnets: The End of implicit Outbound Internet Access

    How a single subnet property is changing the way we design Azure networks, and why “explicit” is the new default. /introduction In our cloud environment, a virtual network (Vnet) is our private little piece of network resource – an isolated address space you can fully control and customize. Within a Vnet, subnets segment that address…

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  • Never Trust, Always Verify – Guide to Zero Trust in Azure

    Never Trust, Always Verify – Guide to Zero Trust in Azure

    Starting of a new series on Azure security concepts /introduction Security in the cloud is much different than what we know of the OnPrem world. Traditional network security was built on the idea of a perimeter. Simply said, if you are inside a network, you’re trusted. If you’re outside, you’re not.That model made sense before…

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