Monday, June 23, 2025

The Cybersecurity Sentinel (June 23)

Colleagues, our goal is to provide Cybersecurity professionals with up-to-day and actionable information to advance your career and income growth.

Product Launches & Innovations

  • Alert Triage Agent (in Google Security Operations): Performs dynamic investigations on behalf of users, analyzing alert context, gathering information, and rendering verdicts with a history of evidence.

  • Charlotte AI Agentic Workflows: Provides drag-and-drop workflows leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to embed AI reasoning within automated playbooks in Falcon Fusion SOAR.

  • Google Chrome Emergency Patch (CVE-2025-12345, CVE-2025-5419): Google released emergency updates for Chrome to fix actively exploited zero-days in the V8 JavaScript engine.

  • Google Cloud Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Capabilities (June Preview): These new capabilities aim to enable discovery, security, governance, and monitoring of sensitive data, including AI training data, directly within Google Cloud data analytics and AI products.

  • Microsoft June 2025 Patch Tuesday: This monthly update (around June 10th) addressed 67 vulnerabilities, including two critical zero-days (CVE-2025-33053 in WebDAV and CVE-2025-33073 in Windows SMB) that were actively exploited.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Cybersecurity Analyst - 10 Best Practices, Portals & Career Development

Colleagues, this post will help you accelerate your career and income potential in the Cyber domain. Whether you are new to Cybersecurity or or looking to advance your existing Cybersecurity Analyst career this post has valuable information for you.

Best Practices

  1. Continuous Learning & Specialization: Master evolving threats (SANS, Hacker News).

  2. Strategic Certifications: Validate skills with relevant industry certs (ISACA, SANS).

  3. Hands-on Experience: Build projects, do CTFs, ethical hacking (Black Hat, CISA).

  4. Strong Communication: Bridge technical/non-technical gaps.

  5. Networking & Mentorship: Connect at conferences (Black Hat) and professional groups (ISACA).

  6. Framework Proficiency: Understand NIST, ISO, CIS Controls (CISA).

  7. Emerging Tech Focus: Specialize in AI/ML, cloud security.

  8. Business Acumen: Align security with organizational risk.

  9. Personal Brand: Share knowledge, contribute to open source.

  10. Diverse Paths: Explore government (CISA, CYBERCOM) and private sector roles.


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Monday, June 9, 2025

Cybersecurity - Interviews, Project Portfolios & Certifications (Your competitive edge)

Colleagues, are you seeking to land the next job in your Cybersecurity career journey … either within your current company or with a new employer? All hiring managers need to answer three fundamental questions in the interview process before making a job offer.

Interview Questions


  1. Skills: Can you do the job?

  2. Motivation: Will you do the job?

  3. Fit: Will you be a team player and fit into the company culture?


Professional Portfolio


Creating a high qualityCybersecurity professional portfolio combined with having industry-leading certifications - along with relevant work experience - will put you at the top of the candidate pool when answering the “Skills” question.


What is a Project Portfolio? 


  1. A project portfolio is a collection of projects, programs, and operations managed collectively to achieve strategic objectives. 

  2. It demonstrates your diverse skills, experience, and proven ability to deliver results, showcasing your value and strategic impact to potential employers or for internal advancement.


What Makes a Project Portfolio Valuable?


  1. Strategic Alignment: Connecting projects to organizational goals.

  2. Resource Management: Efficient allocation of people and assets.

  3. Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential threats.

  4. Performance Monitoring: Tracking progress and outcomes.

  5. Stakeholder Communication: Keeping all parties informed and engaged.


What are the best portals to host your project portfolio?


  1. GitHub

  2. LinkedIn

  3. Behance

  4. Dribbble

  5. Kaggle

  6. Hugging Face

  7. Personal Website (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow - Offers maximum customization & a professional brand presence)


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