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Jerrad Dahlager
Jerrad Dahlager, CISSP, CCSP Cloud Security Architect Β· Adjunct Instructor
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Copy Fail in the Cloud: A Defender, Sentinel, and AKS Response Guide for CVE-2026-31431

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A Linux local privilege escalation bug is easy to dismiss if you only think in traditional server terms. An attacker already needs local access, so how bad can it be? In cloud environments, that assumption breaks fast. A compromised container, a …

Agent 365 Launch Playbook: I Tested the Defender Response for AI Agent Attacks

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Microsoft announced that Agent 365 would become generally available on May 1, 2026. Most launch-week posts explain what it is. I wanted to answer a different question: What does an AI agent attack look like in a real Microsoft defender stack as Agent …

AKS Runtime Security: Binary Drift, Anti-Malware & Gated Deployment with Defender for Cloud

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In December, I published a post on securing the container supply chain β€” SBOM generation, image signing, and build provenance with GitHub Actions. That covered build-time security: making sure the image you ship is the image you built. But what …

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 …