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Jerrad Dahlager
Jerrad Dahlager, CISSP, CCSP Cloud Security Architect Β· Adjunct Instructor
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Building an LLM Prompt Injection Firewall with AWS Lambda

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AWS continues to enhance its generative AI security capabilities, with improved prompt attack filtering now available in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Despite these advances, a significant gap remains: organizations are deploying LLM capabilities faster …

Sentinel MCP Server: Securing Your SOC's New AI Attack Surface

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In September 2025, Microsoft announced the Sentinel MCP Server, a Model Context Protocol implementation that lets MCP-compatible AI assistants query your Sentinel data using natural language. Microsoft highlights GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, and …

Secure Your Container Supply Chain: SBOM, Signing & Attestation with GitHub Actions

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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been diving deep into container supply chain security. Between high-profile incidents like SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and the xz Utils backdoor, it’s clear that securing the build pipeline is just as critical as …

Terraform 1.11's Game-Changer: Keep Secrets Out of State for Good

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If you’ve worked with Terraform and secrets, you’ve probably wondered: β€œWait, is my password actually in that state file?” The answer has historically been: yes. The sensitive = true flag does a great job hiding values from CLI output, but the state …

Securing the Agentic Workforce: Microsoft's Zero Trust for AI Agents

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The enterprise is entering uncharted territory. AI agents, autonomous systems that can browse the web, execute code, access databases, and interact with third-party services, are no longer experimental. They’re being deployed at scale. And they’re …

Welcome to Nine Lives, Zero Trust

If you’ve found your way here, welcome. Pull up a chair. Let me explain what this is all about. Why β€œNine Lives”? The old saying goes that cats have nine lives. They fall off things, get into trouble, and somehow always land on their feet. Cloud …

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