Security engineering is an ever-evolving space. While prevention and planning are still very important, we also need to invest in detection and response. Audit logs (timestamped records that capture the entity that performed an action in a system) are very usef...

I tried to cancel my Sirius XM Satellite radio that came included with my car purchase today. They automatically start billing after the trial ends. After muddling through their website, I found the only way to cancel the subscription is via chat or phone. I op...

Google-managed SSL certificates are TLS certificates that Google Cloud obtains and manages for your domains, renewing them automatically. These are Domain Validation (DV) certificates which support multiple hostnames (via SNI) in each certificate. The process i...

Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure configurations as code, but what if your infrastructure needs to create or delete secrets like API keys or credentials? Google Secret Manager is a Google Cloud service that stores API keys, passwords, cert...

Terraform is a popular tool for managing infrastructure configurations as code, but what if your infrastructure needs secrets like API keys or credentials? Google Secret Manager is a Google Cloud service that stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other ...

I have been doing some Java development recently, and my preferred editors of choice bounce between Visual Studio Code and Neovim. My vim setup is configured to format Java source files using google-java-format, but I was struggling to achieve the same behavior...