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Temporarily Disable Defender for Endpoint
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Defender for Endpoint

Temporarily Disable Defender for Endpoint

Sometimes I am presented with scenarios where I have to assist different IT team members with performance issues on servers and workstations. In most cases, the support teams' goal is…

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October 8, 2025
Ingest Palo Alto FW Logs into Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
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SIEM

Ingest Palo Alto FW Logs into Microsoft Sentinel SIEM

Recently I've had to switch the Palo Alto connector in Microsoft Sentinel from [Deprecated] Palo Alto Networks (Firewall) via Legacy Agent to [Recommended] Palo Alto Networks (Firewall) via AMA. I…

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October 2, 2025
How to Stop Alert Fatigue in Microsoft Sentinel
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How to Stop Alert Fatigue in Microsoft Sentinel

As Security Engineers and SOC Analysts, one of our main pain points is the sheer amount of false positive incidents and alerts that we have to sift through every day.…

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September 30, 2025
Defender for Office 365 – Allow Phishing Simulation Emails
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Security Awareness Training

Defender for Office 365 – Allow Phishing Simulation Emails

Throughout the years working in Cybersecurity I've dealt directly or indirectly with Security Awareness Training programs multiple times. One of the common problems I've to solve is the fact that…

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September 24, 2025
eLection Walkthrough – Offsec Proving Grounds Play Machine
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Proving Grounds Writeups

eLection Walkthrough – Offsec Proving Grounds Play Machine

eLection is an Intermediate difficulty machine on Offsec’s PG Play, highly rated by the community. In this technical walkthrough, I share how I methodically compromised it after conducting a comprehensive…

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September 4, 2025

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A security engineer who spends too much time tinkering with half-finished projects, breaking things, and pretending it was all part of the plan. This blog is basically my digital brain dump, notes, hacks, resources, and random thoughts that don’t deserve to sit quietly in a private folder.

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    Temporarily Disable Defender for Endpoint
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  • Ingest Palo Alto FW Logs into Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
    Ingest Palo Alto FW Logs into Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
    October 2, 2025/
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  • How to Stop Alert Fatigue in Microsoft Sentinel
    How to Stop Alert Fatigue in Microsoft Sentinel
    September 30, 2025/
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  • Defender for Office 365 – Allow Phishing Simulation Emails
    Defender for Office 365 – Allow Phishing Simulation Emails
    September 24, 2025/
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  • Microsoft Sentinel IOC Integration – BlueVoyant Threat Intel Setup
    Microsoft Sentinel IOC Integration – BlueVoyant Threat Intel Setup
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