Vadim L.

Vadim L — founder and full-stack engineer with 25+ years building platforms, security products, and AI tooling. His background spans system administration, analysis, and cybersecurity, working hands-on from architecture through delivery. He writes about offensive security and what actually holds up in production.

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Automated Penetration Testing For Your Firm’s Security Cyber Security
15 min
2023-01-01

Automated Penetration Testing For Your Firm’s Security

What automated penetration testing is, how it works and where it fits — a faster, repeatable way for firms to keep pace with constantly evolving threats.

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Ethical hacking and cyber security Security
2 min
2022-12-16

Ethical hacking and cyber security

What ethical hackers do and why demand for them keeps climbing — their role in modern defense, and how to find (or become) the right one for a business.

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WordPress security 2023 | complete guide Cyber Security
5 min
2022-12-07

WordPress security 2023 | complete guide

A practical 2023 checklist for WordPress security — version updates, strong credentials, dropping the default 'admin' username and keeping regular backups.

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What are the types of pen tests? Who performs pen tests? Cyber Security
8 min
2022-12-02

What are the types of pen tests? Who performs pen tests?

Black, white and grey box; covert, external and internal — a clear rundown of the different types of penetration test and who actually performs each one.

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Understand the basics of web application security Cyber Security
9 min
2022-11-29

Understand the basics of web application security

The fundamentals of web application security for any business operating online — the core habits and safeguards that keep data breaches and malware at bay.

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Computer security: Keep your computer, script and system secure  Security
11 min
2022-11-28

Computer security: Keep your computer, script and system secure 

The everyday essentials of keeping a computer secure — strong passwords, antivirus, firewalls, backups, timely updates and a healthy wariness of online scams.

by Vadim L Read

Written by the operators
on the engagement.

We publish what we'd want to read on the train home. Reproducers, post-mortems, the occasional opinion. If a piece doesn't survive a peer review by the bench, it doesn't ship.

36
articles published
since 2022-03
6
topics covered
cyber security · security · uncategorized · penetration test
1.2/wk
publishing cadence
tracked over last 26 weeks
12min
median read time
we write the long version