Defending Yourself With What You Know About Attackers
The attacks I read about for work arrive at ordinary people every day. What I actually do about that, in the order the effort pays back.
Testing Yourself Beats Re-Reading
Familiarity feels like knowing. It is not, and the fluency you feel while re-reading is exactly the trap.
A Note Is Worth What It Links To
The value of a knowledge base is not how many notes it holds. It is how many of the connections between them carry real meaning.
Encryption Gives Confidentiality, Not Integrity
Hiding data is not the same as proving nobody changed it. Treating the first as the second is the root of a whole class of real vulnerabilities.
Thorough Enumeration Beats Clever Exploitation
When a box is stuck, the answer is almost never a more advanced technique. The winning path was usually visible at hour one and dismissed.
Vulnerabilities Cluster at Trust Boundaries
Name the point where data crosses into more trust and you have usually named the missing defence. Where that lens covers almost everything, and where it stops working.
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