Author: Manindra Simhadri
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As a Security Engineer, what you need to know about ephemeral ports
What are ephemeral ports? Ports are used for sending and receiving data between devices, same like how ships use ports to send and receive goods. Now ephemeral ports are temporary ports that are used to send/recieve data. For commonly used services ports have port numbers associated for them for example SSH is port number 22,…
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Top 10 Security tools every security engineer must know
I always emphasize tools are not everything but we need to know how they work, how tools are engineered and how they make our lives easier. Once you have the engineering understanding of how the tool is working you can take full potential of the same.
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What is MDR?
MDR stands for Managed Detection Response. Its a type of Detection Response and before we dive deep into MDR let’s understand what is Detection Response and will discuss about MDR later in the post. Topics we will be covering this post
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Xtreme Breakdown – Secure Hashing
What is the purpose of Hashing or what is the problem that it’s trying to solve? Let’s say you are trying to send a file from your device to your friend’s device and your friend would like to confirm whether the file you sent is the same file that is downloaded the same file or…
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OSCAR Framework | Forensics Methodology
When it comes to forensics certain ways have been defined to help investigators to perform their investigation. In this article, we are going to discuss a similar framework called the OSCAR framework. Whether it’s an IT incident or a physical incident, the OSCAR framework will help you how to perform an investigation. OSCAR stands for…
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Brief Encyclopedia of CVSS
We have seen that there is a lot of noise going around CVSS as FIRST has launched version 4.0 and in this article, I would like to discuss what is CVSS and how it evolved. What is CVSS CVSS stands for Common Vulnerability Scoring System. NIAC unveiled it on 23 February 2005. The purpose of…