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  Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO) Review

  Published:Jan 14, 2025 |  at 10:08 AM

  Short review of the Certified Red Team Operator certification: course quality, lab environment, exam format and the AD/red teaming skills I realistically gained from it.

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  Setup ELK and monitor App's Logs

  Updated:Dec 26, 2024 |  at 06:05 AM

  How I wired a simple blog app’s logs into Elasticsearch: quick ELK + Nginx setup and a Winston + winston-elasticsearch logger inside a TypeScript ElysiaJS/Bun backend.

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  SSH Certificate Authentication

  Published:Aug 29, 2024 |  at 10:22 AM

  Minimal SSH certificate authentication lab: three Docker containers (CA, client, server) where we create a CA key, sign a user key and test SSH logins with certificates.

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  High Available ELK Stack

  Published:Aug 11, 2024 |  at 05:16 PM

  Guest post by Telman: detailed walkthrough for building a highly available ELK stack on GCP with three Elasticsearch nodes, Logstash, Kibana and Filebeat sending logs.

  Author: Telman Yusifov