From Dashboards to Defense: What Data Skills Actually Transfer to Cybersecurity
You've spent years finding things that don't belong in your data. Turns out, that's basically the job description for a security analyst. Here's the full breakdown — plus a free printable skills guide. Let me tell you about the moment I almost talked myself out of a career change. I am in a healthcare analytics role. My whole day is SQL joins, Tableau dashboards, and root-cause investigations. I had been quietly exploring cybersecurity for a few months — reading job descripti
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From Storm Signatures to Attack Signatures
I spent years reading atmospheric data for the anomaly that didn't belong. Finishing TryHackMe's Intro to Log Analysis room, I found the same instinct waiting in an Apache access log, just a different kind of storm. Here's what the room taught me about command-line triage, regex, attack signatures, and reading the story a log is telling.
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Saturday Flex: 4th of July + Cybersecurity Thoughts 🇺🇸💻
Attackers don't log off for fireworks. Holidays don't weaken systems — they change how humans interact with them. And that's usually where risk quietly creeps in.
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The End of Obscurity: Why Small Utilities Face Big Cyber Risks in 2026
Small utilities have operated under a comforting assumption for years: 'We're too small for anyone to target.' The data says otherwise. Attackers don't need to know who you are — they just need your IP address to show up in an automated scan.
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