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Mar
Your Father Spent His Life Savings on Claude Code and We Shipped Nothing

Your Father Spent His Life Savings on Claude Code and We Shipped Nothing

March 2026 On AI slop, borrowed thinking, and the skills that matter when everyone has the same tools. The meme
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27
Mar
Cybersecurity Career Guide 2026 roadmap, four phases from Foundations to Landing the Role. Free 58-page PDF covering AI, role tracks, lab builds. CyberDesserts.com

The Cybersecurity Career Guide 2026, Free 58-Page Download

April 2026 I have spent a lot of time thinking about what cybersecurity practitioners need when it comes to learning
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23
Mar
Government Cybersecurity Resources

How to Use UK Government Cybersecurity Resources to Advance Your Security Career

March 2026 LinkedIn Post Copy Link UK government cybersecurity resources are the most underused career asset in the profession. While
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20
Mar
Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition (Don Murdoch) version 3.0

Best Blue Team Cybersecurity Books to Read in 2026

A first-year student asked me what to read for blue team. The answer surprised them, not because the list was
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18
Mar
Targeting Firewalls And VPN Appliances

Why Ransomware Groups Are Targeting Firewalls and VPN Appliances

Updated March 2026: Analysis of the Interlock ransomware campaign exploiting a zero-day in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, based on
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16
Mar
Microsoft Intune Security Hardening

Microsoft Intune Security: Hardening Privileged Access

Updated March 2026: Based on the Stryker incident and Microsoft's official hardening guidance published 13 March 2026. LinkedIn
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14
Mar
SOC Analyst Skills In 2026

What SOC Hiring Managers Test For In Interviews

SOC hiring managers reveal what actually gets analysts hired: soft skills rank above technical ones, MITRE ATT&CK fluency is the X-factor, and AI is raising the bar without replacing the role.
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13
Mar
he Dead Internet Is a Security Problem

The Dead Internet Is a Security Problem: What Digg's Collapse Teaches Us

Published March 2026 Digg launched in January 2026 to challenge the idea that the internet is full of bots, by
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13
Mar
Can You Use AI for Security Work Without the Cloud?

Can You Use AI for Security Work Without the Cloud?

This article draws on three months of production experience building the CyberDesserts Security Assistant, a RAG-based AI system trained on
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12
Mar
SOC Analyst Role is changing ?

Will AI Replace SOC Analysts?

March 2026 LinkedIn Post Copy Link Large language models cannot yet be trusted to make autonomous security decisions. That is
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