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  • Community Post

    My first 30 days studying for Security+ (what I'd change)

    Thirty days in and I already wish I'd started a "missed questions" log on day one instead of day twelve. The single biggest change to my scores came from review…

    Jun 12, 2026
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    From the classroom to the SOC: a career-changer's honest log

    I taught high school for eight years. Everyone warned me the pivot to security would be brutal at my age. Six months in: the technical ramp is real, but explain…

    Jun 6, 2026
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    I failed Security+ by 40 points — here's the retake plan

    710 when I needed 750. Gutted, then useful. The score report pointed straight at the domains I'd underprepared, and the honest culprit was performance-based que…

    May 27, 2026
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    Enumeration is a reading problem, not a scanning problem

    After coaching a dozen OSCP hopefuls, the pattern is always the same: they run enough tools, they just don't READ the output. The answer is usually already on t…

    May 25, 2026
  • Article

    Modeling SOC analyst burnout: a community survey

    A quantitative read on 211 SOC analysts on alert volume, on-call cadence, and self-reported burnout — and what improved retention.

    SOC AnalystApr 12, 2026
  • Article

    Building a continuous pentest pipeline that doesn’t lie

    An engineering walkthrough of the OSCI continuous-pentest pipeline: what we run, how we triage findings, and how we keep false-positive rates under 8%.

    Red TeamApr 2, 2026
  • Article

    Open-source detection stacks in 2026

    A landscape review of OSS detection tooling — what teams actually run, what they wish ran better, what to watch.

    Detection EngineeringMar 18, 2026
  • Article

    Tutorial: tune your first SIEM correlation rule

    Hands-on tutorial. Take a noisy detection rule, instrument it, and tune it down to an alert volume your team will actually action.

    Detection EngineeringMar 5, 2026
  • Article

    Why the diversity numbers in cyber still aren’t moving

    An editorial on the structural reasons cybersecurity hiring still mirrors a narrow demographic, and what mentorship programs can actually shift.

    Feb 22, 2026
  • Article

    Breaking into a SOC role: an honest guide

    What a SOC role actually looks like, what gets you hired, and what to expect in the first 90 days.

    SOC AnalystFeb 10, 2026
  • Article

    OSINT pivot counts: what 4,100 investigations actually used

    A data release: 4,100 anonymized OSINT investigation traces with pivot-count distributions by case type.

    Incident ResponseJan 30, 2026
  • Article

    Year-one mentor curriculum: a complete arc

    A 12-month curriculum mentors can adapt to a new mentee’s onboarding, with milestones and reflection prompts.

    Jan 15, 2026
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