Category: Cybersecurity Labs

  • Secure File Vault: Encrypted Cloud Storage

    Secure File Vault: Encrypted Cloud Storage

    Secure File Vault is a Flask-based web application demonstrating secure-by-design principles. It offers encrypted file storage, robust user authentication, and strict access controls. Featuring CSRF protection, SQL injection prevention, and secure file handling, it’s an ideal platform for cybersecurity education and continuous improvement. Perfect for users seeking a secure, private cloud storage solution. Read more

  • Splunk Configuration

    Splunk Configuration

    This post is geared towards anyone looking to clarify how to connect to Splunk. This software is incredibly vast and there is a lot to learn in terms of how to utilize it well. The very start of that process is learning how to configure everything. The process is a bit different than general terminal… Read more

  • DoS Attack

    DoS Attack

    Context I will set up a proxy server which will allow me to look at “encrypted” data from a secure website of my choice. I will also get a sense of what a DoS (Denial of Service) attack looks like during the project and what I can do to both detect and respond to one.… Read more

  • Malicious Email and IP Investigation

    Malicious Email and IP Investigation

    Context One of the most popular scams throughout industries is the Business Email Compromise (BEC). BECs are responsible for many notable real world scams, incurring hundreds of millions of dollars of losses from 2013 to 2014 alone. I’ll be handling my own BEC situation, where a malicious actor has sent phishing emails to many employees, trying to trick them into sending… Read more