Frank Siemons

Frank Siemons is an Australian security researcher at InfoSec Institute. His trackrecord consists of many years of Systems and Security administration, both in Europe and in Australia.

Currently he holds many certifications such as CISSP and has a Master degree in InfoSys Security at Charles Sturt University. He has a true passion for anything related to pentesting and vulnerability assessment and can be found on au.linkedin.com/in/franksiemons. His Twitter handle is @franksiemons

Frank Siemons

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Cybersecurity engineer

Top 5 security engineer resume tips

March 13, 2023

The role of cybersecurity engineer The cybersecurity engineer role has been around for decades and is constantly evolving. You'll want to keep your resume c

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Network security

Open source IDS: Snort or Suricata? [updated 2021]

January 27, 2021

Although early types of Network Intrusion Detection Systems go back all the way to the early 1980s, the concept of IDS took off when Martin Roesch created hi

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Cloud security

Cloud Based IDS and IPS Solutions [Updated 2019]

August 23, 2019

Defense-In-Depth is a term used to describe the practice of creating a multi-layered defense system within a network. Each layer should be covered by one or

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Internet data center room with server and networking device on rack cabinet and kvm monitor with charts on screen and cloud services icon with connection lines, cloud computing concept Cloud security

5 key cloud security use cases

February 13, 2019

A use case typically describes a situation where and how a system, product or service can be used. This is usually a short list of steps an actor should take

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Cloud security

Deep Packet Inspection in the Cloud

December 20, 2018

When looking at network traffic in a very simplified way, network packets are made up of headers and data (or code). While the headers are mostly used to dir

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Cloud security

Honeypots in the Cloud

December 1, 2018

Why Use Honeypots? For an organization that has a reasonably complete security posture, including a mature threat intelligence capability, the implementatio

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Cloud security

Open-Source Intelligence Collection in Cloud Platforms

August 21, 2018

Threat Intelligence One of the most popular specialized fields within the security domain is threat intelligence. In the recent years, organizations have bee

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Cloud security

Controlling the Risks of Cloud-Enabled End-Point Security Products

April 18, 2018

Cloud Connectivity for End-point Security Products A relatively new feature in Antivirus products has led to an evolution of most traditional Antivirus produ

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General security

Deserialization Attacks for Crypto-Mining

March 1, 2018

During the year 2017, an increased popularity in Deserialization Attack methods and a more than significant rise in the value of cryptocurrencies, some over

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Application security

SQL Injection Protection in Cloud Systems

January 12, 2018

SQL Injection Structural Query Language (SQL) is a language used to program and manage data in relational databases. Originating in 1986, SQL has gained so m

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Cloud security

Five Reasons Why Security Professionals Need the Cloud

December 19, 2017

Malware Analysis A more experienced security analyst or a threat intelligence analyst should be comfortable with malware research and even reverse engineerin

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Insider threat

Insider threats within the cloud

November 23, 2017

Contrary to common perception, time and time again reports show that the most significant security threats to an organization are the so-called Insider Threa

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