Network Security

The Bonus Track: Lab Builds, Ethical Pauses, and the Flag I Didn’t Get Part one of this series covered the six base challenges of the Dragon Hunter CTF—six web security lessons, each solved cleanly, each with a neat “here’s what I found” ending. ...

The perimeter-based defense model — a centralized, physical firewall guarding a well-defined network edge — is effectively obsolete. As business operations move to hybrid, multi-cloud environments, the “network boundary” now stretches to wherever an authorized user or workload happens to be running. ...