Ransomware Defense: Prevention, Detection, and Recovery Strategies
A comprehensive guide to protecting organizations from ransomware attacks, covering backup strategies, endpoint detection, network segmentation, and incident response playbooks.
Multimodal AI: Combining Vision, Voice, and Text in One Agent
Architectural patterns for building AI assistants that process camera feeds, voice commands, and text prompts simultaneously, with lessons from building Fixr and Khan OS.
How AI is Transforming Penetration Testing
From automated recon to intelligent vulnerability prioritization, exploring how agentic AI systems like Aegis Intelligence are reshaping offensive security workflows.
Web Application Security: OWASP Top 10 Deep Dive
Practical analysis of the most critical web application security risks, with real-world examples, exploitation techniques, and secure coding practices to prevent each vulnerability.
Understanding DDoS Attacks on Financial Institutions
Deep dive into attack vectors, amplification techniques, and layered mitigation strategies for protecting financial infrastructure from volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks.
Cloud Security Fundamentals: AWS, Azure, and GCP Security Controls
Understanding shared responsibility models, identity and access management, network security groups, and encryption in major cloud platforms.
Building Secure Authentication Systems from Scratch
A practical guide to implementing multifactor authentication with TOTP, secure password hashing using bcrypt, and defense against brute force and credential stuffing attacks.
Day in the Life of a SOC Analyst: Tools, Workflows, and Alert Triage
Inside look at Security Operations Center workflows, from initial alert triage to incident escalation, including essential tools like SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms.
Introduction to Threat Hunting: Proactive Security Beyond Alerts
How to proactively search for threats that evade automated detection, including hypothesis-driven hunting methodologies, essential data sources, and practical hunting techniques.
AI in Cybersecurity: Detecting Network Anomalies
How machine learning models trained on network telemetry can identify zero-day threats, lateral movement, and data exfiltration in real-time enterprise environments.
Full Stack Development for Hackathons: Lessons from NASA Space Apps
Key strategies for rapid prototyping under pressure: choosing the right stack, dividing frontend and backend work, and shipping a working demo in 24 hours.
Zero Trust Architecture: Beyond the Perimeter
Why traditional perimeter-based security fails in cloud-native environments and how zero trust principles, micro-segmentation, and continuous verification create resilient defense.
From Help Desk to Cybersecurity: Building an IT Career Path
How hands-on IT support experience at DePaul became the foundation for a cybersecurity career, including tips on certifications, lab projects, and transitioning from Tier 1 to security roles.