The Ethical Hacking Sentinel (July 1)

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

Product Launches & Innovations: 

• Advanced Agentic AI Tools for Security Operations

• AI-Augmented Penetration Testing & Adversarial Simulation Toolkits

• AI-Driven Liveness Detection to Combat Deepfakes

• AI-Powered Security Operations & Automation

• Enhanced DNS Posture Management

• Identity Protection with Contextual Data Access Monitoring

• Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness Tools 

• Unified Security, Risk Management, and Compliance Platforms

AI & Ethical Hacking:

• AI-Powered Ethical Hacking: Rethinking Cyber Security Penetration Testing (Research Gate)

• AI and Ethical Hacking – A Powerful Combo for Modern Threat Defense (PECB)

• AI chatbots can pass certified ethical hacking exams (Tech Xplore)

• AI in Ethical Hacking: How Automation is Changing Cyber Defense? (CyberTalents)

• Autonomous Ethical Hacking (ETHIACK)

Featured Resources:

• Ethical hacking: at the heart of modern cybersecurity (Polytechnique Insights)

• How to become an ethical hacker: A blueprint (Cybersecurity Guide)

• The Ethical Hacker’s Role in Cybersecurity (Sphero)

• The Evolution of Ethical Hacking: From Curiosity to Cybersecurity (National Cybersecurity Alliance)

• What is Ethical Hacking? A Complete Guide to Ethical Hacking (EC - Council)

Events:

• 7th World Conference on Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking (July 7, 2025 - NYC, US)

• Black Hat USA (August 2-7, 2025 - Las Vegas, Nevada, US)

• C|EH Global Challenge (July 2025 - Online, monthly skill challenge)

• DEF CON 33 (August 7-10, 2025 - Las Vegas, Nevada, US)

• International Conference on Cyber Security - ICCS (July 14-16, 2025 - NYC, US)

• SANSFIRE (July 14-19, 2025 - Washington, DC, US)

Career Development - Boost Your Income by 5%-10%:

• Advanced Metasploit Proficiency (Exam)

• Applied Certified Ethical Hacker Specialization 

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

• Certified Ethical Hacker: Foundations using R Specialization

• Certified Ethical Hacker Fundamentals with Python and SQL Specialization

• Certified Ethical Hacker Specialization

• Certified Web3 Hacker (CW3H)

• Ethical Hacking From Scratch

• Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

• IBM Certified Ethical Hacker Professional Certificate

• Understanding Certified Ethical Hacker 

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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.

AI & Cybersecurity

• “AI is Now the Leading Cybersecurity Concern for Security and IT Leaders” (Arctic Wolf, 2025)

• “AI is the greatest threat—and defense—in cybersecurity today” (McKinsey & Company, 2025)

• “Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Balancing Risks and Rewards” (World Economic Forum, January 2025)

• “The State of AI Security” (Cisco, 2025)

Featured Resources

• CISA - Cybersecurity Best Practices

• Cybersecurity Guide

• The Hacker News

Events

• Co-op Cyber Tech 2025 (June 23, 2025 - Denver, CO US)

• CrowdTour (June 26, 2025 - Chile)

• Cyber Week 2025 (June 23 - 26, 2025 - Israel)

• FIRST Conference (June 22 - 27, 2025 - Denmark)

Career Development - Boost Your Income by 5%-10%

• Applied Cybersecurity Specialization 

• Beginners Guide to Cyber Security

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Complete Course & Exam

• Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

• Cybersecurity: Foundations using R Specialization

• Cybersecurity Fundamentals with Python and SQL Specialization

• Cybersecurity Specialization

• Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate 

• IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate

• IBM Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

• IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist Professional Certificate 

• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

• Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch

• Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

• Understanding Cybersecurity 

Enroll today (teams & execs are welcome).

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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.

Resource Portals

• Black Hat

• CISA

• Cisco Security

• DEF CON

• EC Council

• GitHub Cybersecurity

• Hacker News

• IBM Security & Privacy

• Interpol Cyber

• ISACA Global

• ISC2

• Microsoft Security

• Pen Tester Academy (Skill Drive)

• SANS Institute

• US Cyber Command

Specializations, Master Classes and Certifications

• Applied Cybersecurity Specialization 

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Complete Course & Exam

• Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

• Cybersecurity: Foundations using R Specialization

• Cybersecurity Fundamentals with Python and SQL Specialization

• Cybersecurity Specialization

• Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate 

• IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate

• IBM Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

• IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist Professional Certificate 

• IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

• Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch

• Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

• Understanding Cybersecurity 

Enroll today (teams & executives are welcome).  

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