Photo by Alex Knight on Pexels.com Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is essentially the process of handling interactions and communications with existing and potential customers. After completing my Hubspot Software Hub certification and creating my first Knowledge Base this week, I wanted to look deeper into CRM and explore the impact of AI, particularly Machine Learning, … Continue reading CRM and Machine Learning
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection Attacks (SQLi) – what’s the difference?
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com It’s been awhile since I focused on an aspect of cyber security so this week I want to briefly cover two types of cyber attacks that are often closely associated and sometimes mistaken as the same attack... Firstly, let’s think about SQL Injection attacks (SQLi). With SQLi the hacker’s intent … Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection Attacks (SQLi) – what’s the difference?
Microservices 101
Photo by Kevin Ku on Pexels.com Following on from last week’s cloud blog on AWS Lambda, this week I want to explore AWS Microservices and explain their purpose and benefits as concisely as possible. Microservices are an alternative to a traditional monolithic architecture. Before we examine Microservices it’s important to break down the principles of … Continue reading Microservices 101
AWS Lambda: Demystifying ‘the ultimate abstraction layer’
As I progress with my AWS cloud journey, Lambda remains an area of interest that I am still unable to concisely define better than the known phrase of ‘the ultimate abstraction layer’. Despite being able to explain what Lambda does; it is difficult to pinpoint what it actually is. So in this blog, I want … Continue reading AWS Lambda: Demystifying ‘the ultimate abstraction layer’
Rethinking Cyber Security in the post pandemic world – the threat of DDoS attacks
Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com The increased need to work remotely over the past six months has forced organisations to become more engaged with security and to reconsider the assumption that all network activity has to go through a centralised on-premise security stack. With changing approaches in communication among employees as well as an … Continue reading Rethinking Cyber Security in the post pandemic world – the threat of DDoS attacks
Did I mention I passed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam? Don’t worry, I won’t go on about it…
Chances are I’ve mentioned my certification quite a lot since passing in August, unashamedly, on my third attempt. Over the past few years I’ve sat exams on a range of subjects from machine learning to medieval sonnets and I can without hesitation say that the SAA was the most difficult exam I have taken. Not … Continue reading Did I mention I passed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam? Don’t worry, I won’t go on about it…
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