Optus Outage Incident – Root Cause Analysis

There were four breaches, one hacking and the recent outage believed to be some configuration mishap while doing a software upgrade, all in past 5 years making big news for Optus (see reference1-5). Around 4.05am on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Optus experienced a widespread service outage, affecting a significant number of its customers. The disruption … More Optus Outage Incident – Root Cause Analysis

CISSP Series Domain3 Episode 15 – Mathematical Relevance in Security Models and Real Life

Hey there! In this video, I’m diving into the intriguing question of how mathematics relates to the real world. This question has come my way quite a few times, even when I was teaching algebra to my kids. We often use math in our daily lives, whether it’s basic arithmetic or more advanced concepts like … More CISSP Series Domain3 Episode 15 – Mathematical Relevance in Security Models and Real Life

🎯 Fault Tolerance vs. System Resiliency

🎯 #CISSP Tips 🎯 Fault Tolerance vs. System Resiliency 🎤 Words have some intrinsic meanings, and based on its genesis (etymology) it inherits certain story/context. Interestingly, at times while language evolves and is conditioned across different cultures, meanings of words also travels in the invisible cosmos of human consciousness, making it a subject of change … More 🎯 Fault Tolerance vs. System Resiliency

CVE-2021-44228 – Log4Shell/Log4J

🪢 There has always been this tug-of-war between what is “comfortable” vs. what is “healthy”, since ages, and has been more of discussion with technology proliferation in our day to day affairs. 👨🏻‍💻 Software developers, while documenting and logging an application’s physiology, tend to be creative and use “variables” in making the program’s footprint more … More CVE-2021-44228 – Log4Shell/Log4J