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detection engineering

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Pick offense or defense

Two paths into infosec - offense and defense - broken down at the mechanism level. Foundation, tooling, telemetry, and the divergence point.

The Roblox cheat never touched Roblox
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The Roblox cheat never touched Roblox

How a Roblox cheat turned into a Vercel supply chain compromise - stealer to stolen token to dependency confusion to persistent build-pipeline access.

Vercel hands attackers your build pipeline
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Vercel hands attackers your build pipeline

Technical IR playbook for a Vercel CI/CD compromise: attack chain, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, telemetry gaps, containment sequence, and residual exposure.

Your MSSP is selling you blindness.
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Your MSSP is selling you blindness.

MSSPs run perimeter-era detection while attackers operate inside the identity boundary. The gap is structural, not a resourcing problem.

Your security pipeline missed 271 bugs
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Your security pipeline missed 271 bugs

Mozilla's Anthropic Mythos scan surfaced 271 Firefox 150 vulnerabilities. The delta exposes the limit of single-pipeline vulnerability assurance.