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Blitzscaling Security: Diary of a Security Engineer by Sparc Flow chronicles the journey of Alex, the inaugural security engineer at a rapidly growing startup. The narrative delves into Alex’s experiences, from the interview process to the initial months of establishing security protocols. It highlights interactions with various teams, communication challenges, vulnerability prioritization, and the tension between conventional security wisdom and practical application. The book emphasizes pragmatism and first principles, aiming to debunk prevalent myths in the security field that may be counterproductive.

This course helps create and understand low-level Linux attack paths, improve your Linux detection coverage, see in action many Open Source DFIR/defensive projects, and understand the need for Linux telemetry, especially including Kubernetes clusters where Runtime Security solutions are a must these days. The techniques and attack paths covered in this training include many different implementations of eBPF, XDP, Ftrace, Kprobe, Uprobe, Netfilter, Systemtap, PAM, SSHD, HTTPD/Nginx, LD_PRELOAD-based code samples, and PoCs. Detection and forensics layers include LKRG, bpftool, Velociraptor IR, OSQuery, CLI-based /proc/ and /sys/ analysis, memory forensics with Volatility  2/3 Framework with the semi-automated RAM acquisition, Sysmon4Linux, Falco, Tracee, Sysdig, Tetragon, Sandfly Security, Zeek IDS, Suricata IDS, Moloch/Arkime FPC, Yara rules and more.