L1 Week 6-7: Effective Threat Investigation for SOC Analysts
Study notes on Mostafa Yahia's "Effective Threat Investigation for SOC Analysts".
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L1 Week 5: Data Privacy, Incident Response, Forensics, Risk Management, Resilience & Physical Security
Consolidated reference covering data privacy and protection controls, incident response procedures and data sources, digital forensics documentation, risk management/BIA concepts, cybersecurity resilience (redundancy and backup strategies), and physical/site security controls.
L1 Week 4: Host Security, Mobile Solutions, Secure Application Concepts, and Cloud Security
Covering host hardening and endpoint protection, mobile device management and deployment models, application attack indicators with secure coding practices, and cloud/virtualization security concepts including deployment and service models, hypervisor types, VDI, containers, and cloud security controls.
L1 Week 3: Identity Management and Secure Network Design
Covering Identity & Account Management controls, secure network architecture fundamentals, implementing network security appliances, and implementing secure network protocols (DHCP, DNS, TLS, FTP/SFTP, VPN, SSH).
L1 Week 2: Social Engineering, Malware, Cryptographic Concepts and Nmap Cheat Sheet
Covers social engineering attacks, malware classification, and foundational cryptographic concepts from the Security+ (SY0-601) course.
L1 Week 1: Security+ Fundamentals, Controls, Threats, Reconnaissance & Assessments
Covers core Security+ SY0-601 concepts including foundational security, threat actor taxonomy, network reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing.
CAT CTF 2026 Writeup
Phantom Extraction “I know that a rev guy created this challenge, I just can’t prove it” Category: Forensics / Network Tools: Wireshark, CyberChef First Look We get a traffic.pcap file. O...
OverTheWire Bandit — Level 0 to Level 10 Writeup
Writeup for OverTheWire Bandit levels 0 through 10. Covers basic Linux file reading, hidden files, find command, strings, sort/uniq, and base64 decoding.
Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb
My Week 2 notes from the CAT Reloaded entry-level program. Covers Linux basics from OccupyTheWeb's book — navigation, text manipulation, networking, permissions, processes, scripting, services, anonymity, wireless, and job scheduling.
Networking: OSI Model, HTTP, DNS, TCP/UDP & More
My Week 1 notes from the CAT Reloaded entry-level program. Covers the OSI model layers, DNS, HTTP, TCP/UDP, IP addressing, subnetting, DHCP, NAT, and routing.