The OPSEC of Protesting
For the past three months thousands of people have been protesting in the United States due to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony...
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Encryption – CISSP Domain 3
We’re circling back to some more CISSP-related materials. Today’s topic will be encryption, which can be found in CISSP Domain 3. By its very...
Encoding – CISSP Domain 3
Today we’re going to take a quick look at encoding, as covered in Domain 3 of the CISSP common body of knowledge (CBK). There is often some confusion...
Summer Internship at Secure Ideas
This past summer, I worked as an intern for Secure Ideas. My role at the company was that of software developer, designing applications to streamline...
Bash Tips and Tricks
I know I definitely identify with being a visual learner, and I am happy to help where I can with creating content for the security/sysadmin (system...
Hashing Functions – CISSP Domain 3
Today we’re going to take a quick look at hashing functions, as covered in Domain 3 of the CISSP common body of knowledge (CBK). There is often some...
Visual Learner? Look no further!
Secure Ideas has been in the business for 10 years and over the last ten years we have found that everyone learns differently. There is no set way...
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Waving the White Flag: Why InfoSec should stop caring about HTTPOnly
As a company that is constantly working with our penetration testing clients on understanding where they should focus their efforts, qualifying risk...
Proxying HTTPS Traffic with Burp Suite
This is easy to fix. All we need to do is tell our browser that the Burp CA can be trusted. Because every new installation of Burp generates a...
Einstein Told Us: Why User Awareness is NOT the right focus
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Einstein (Well, not really!) Every day we...
Cooking up Better Security Incident Communications
I am fond of meal kits. I enjoy the entire experience: the scrolling through delicious-looking meal descriptions, the excitement of receiving a...
Asset Discovery
The first step in securing any organization is to understand what you have. Unless you have a strong understanding of the systems and services on...