Officially enrolled in Operation Cymbal: Cold Room, a free community CTF from Google Cloud Security x Hack The Box ✅ 🧊 The scenario A company collapses after 3 breaches that look unrelated. Your job: figure out what really happened. 🛠️ What you actually do → Investigate logs inside Google Sec

We hear this cybersecurity advice all the time: “Don’t click suspicious links.” But I kept thinking about the step before that… How does someone know why an email or text is suspicious in the first place? 👀 So for Hacktoberfest, I built Does This Belong Here? 🔐 You can paste in a sus

I was looking through old photos and found this one from when I competed in a dragon boat race. 🚣🏽‍♀️ Looking at it now, I realized it taught me something about teamwork that still applies to my career today. You can put 20 strong people in one boat and still go nowhere if everyone paddles at

Cybersecurity doesn’t have to mean changing everything overnight. Sometimes it’s checking an old password. Turning on MFA. Updating a device. Reviewing an app permission. Or simply pausing before clicking a link. This month, I’m focusing on the small habits that can make our everyday digital

I’ve been quietly building something as part of my transition from data analytics into cybersecurity: 📖 The Security Dictionary It started because I kept seeing the same terms in SOC and Security Analyst job descriptions. SIEM. Triage. EDR. Incident Response. Log Analysis. I could m

In February 2020, I took a risk. I flew more than 2,000 miles from Maryland to California by myself for the weekend. I wanted to experience L.A., see places I’d always wanted to see, and I decided that going alone wasn’t going to stop me. After that trip, I wrote that sometimes you have to

I’ve been working on something new for October. 🍂🔐 31 Days Safer is a 31-day digital hygiene challenge built for everyday people — not just cybersecurity professionals. We’ll work through small, practical habits covering: 🔐 Identity & account security 📱 Devices, mobile & apps 🏠 H

Okay, now I have video evidence. 😂 Yesterday ChatGPT started leaving emoji reactions directly on my messages in the Android app — not emojis inside its written response, but actual reactions attached to my messages. Today it happened again while I was using ChatGPT on the web. Funny enough, I

ChatGPT reacted to my message in real time 👀 Not an emoji inside its response—an actual reaction attached to my message. Then it happened three times back-to-back, with each reaction matching the context. I haven’t seen an official announcement about this yet, but apparently I’m not the only

Spent the day visiting family in New Jersey today, and it’s been a minute. 🥹 Husband driving, me on photo duty. 📸 Caught this sunset right as we hit the Delaware Memorial Bridge. There’s just something about seeing those towers and knowing you’re almost home. No matter how long I’ve lived awa

I’m still becoming a woman in cybersecurity. 🌸🔐 My background is in data analytics, and when I started learning cyber, I thought I was stepping into an entirely new world. But the more I learn, the more connections I see. 📊 Pattern recognition → spotting unusual activity 🧠 Critical thinki

I recently did a 15-week audit of my own progress moving from data analytics toward cybersecurity. And it reminded me of something: Sometimes progress is hard to see when you’re standing inside it. So before summer officially gets filed away, try your own audit. 🔎 Look at: ✓ What you

Before DataSec Chronicles, before my career in data, and long before cybersecurity, I was already writing about STEM. 📰💜 In September 2014, fresh out of Howard University with my master’s in atmospheric science, I wrote a letter to the editor at EBONY. They published it. 🥹 I wrote about re