Alex Baracat’s Dev Journal

Building an AWS IAM Sentinel

The purpose of this project is to learn how to deploy infrastructure as code and trigger alerts on Slack when there is a change in privileges. The architecture is based on CloudTrail, IAM, Lambda, Terraform, and Slack. Before deploying this project, your AWS account must have permissions to create IAM

Dockerizing an EML Reader

In order to learn more about Docker, I decided to create a container for my EML Inspector app made of Python and PyFlask. This serverless application can read an EML file content to help Security Analysts run forensics on emails. (EML File Reader application screenshot) Step 1: Dockerizing the Flask

Home lab: Smart devices traffic analysis

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building a home lab project that combines network analysis and system design: a traffic analysis system for my smart devices at home. In order to have something up and running as fast as possible, I approached this project in a simple way:

Designing my portfolio

Over the past weeks, I wrapped my head around the idea of taking my portfolio out of Sketch so I could finally have my own page to showcase my projects. Instead of relying on website builders to speed up the process, I decided to build the entire site using my

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