Practical cybersecurity, explained clearly.
A practical cybersecurity blog focused on systems, networks, and real-world defense.
What this site covers
- Systems & network security: segmentation, firewalls, remote access, hardening
- Defense-in-depth & Zero Trust: practical interpretations, tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Monitoring & logging: what to collect, how to reason about alerts, and how to respond
- Architecture decisions: patterns that hold up under stress (and the ones that don’t)
- Teaching notes: explainers and lab-ready guidance for students and practitioners
Start here
- Browse the blog — posts and living articles.
- About this site — scope, perspective, and how updates work.
- RSS feed — follow new posts in your reader.
How I write here
- Signal over noise — no vendor hype, no copy/paste “best practices.”
- Controls are evaluated by outcomes: visibility, resilience, and response.
- Tradeoffs are explicit: performance, usability, cost, and risk.
- When a post needs updates, it gets updated.