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Incident Response Series Round‑Up: IRP, PIR, Tabletop Exercises & NIST CSF 2.0

Leave a Comment / Cyber Strategy, Architecture & GRC, Cyber Magazine / Tayven / August 8, 2026 / aar, case study, Cyber awareness, cyber documentation, cyber scam, Cybersecurity, incident response, incident response planning, IRP, nist csf 2.0, NIST framework, PIR, security operations, tabletop exercise

My interest in incident response started years ago during my first university course on the subject. It was the first time I’d seen how structured, disciplined, and genuinely powerful a well‑designed Incident Response Plan could be. That early exposure stayed with me. Later, when I began studying NIST CSF 2.0, I noticed something interesting: the […]

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Cracked smartphone on a dark table at night displaying a text message notification that says “Hi Dad,” symbolising the start of a scam.

“Hi Dad, I Dropped My Phone”: How to Spot This Scam And What To Do If You Get One

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security Culture & Awareness / Tayven / July 18, 2026 / Cyber awareness, cyber security awareness, everyday cyber security, family scam, hi dad scam, hi mum scam, IDCARE, identity theft, impersonation scam, MFA scam, phishing, scam Australia, scamwatch, SMS scam, Social engineering

A late‑night buzz from an unknown number. A message that sounds exactly like your child. A believable accident, a broken phone, a new SIM card arriving at the exact moment you’re tired, distracted, and least likely to double‑check anything. That’s why the “Hi Mum / Hi Dad” scam works. It doesn’t rely on hacking. It

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How to Write an After Action Report (AAR) for Cyber Tabletop Exercises

Leave a Comment / Cyber Strategy, Architecture & GRC / Tayven / June 27, 2026 / aar, after action report, blue team basics, Cyber awareness, Cyber security, facilitator guide, identity compromise, incident response, MFA fatigue, NIST CSF, oauth persistence, remediation register, tabletop exercise

An After‑Action Report is where a tabletop exercise turns into something real. It’s the moment where the conversation becomes clarity, and clarity becomes improvement. This AAR captures not just what happened in the scenario, but how the team thought, reacted, hesitated, and learned, because that’s where the real value sits.

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How I Got Into Cyber, Got Uni for Free, and Passed the SC‑900

Leave a Comment / Cyber Magazine / Tayven / June 14, 2026 / Blue Team, Cyber awareness, cyber career, cyber magazine, Cyber security, cyber stories, education, issue one, learning pathway, security insights

Tayven Cyber Security Edition #1: The Education Arc Inside: Uni for Free, Getting Into Cyber, Passing the SC‑900, and the HTB Web Exploitation Pathway You step into the digital frontier, not a void, but a living expanse of systems, signals, and unseen architecture. The paths ahead aren’t labeled; they shift and shimmer with possibility. Cloud,

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“Hi Dad, I Dropped My Phone”: How a Simple Text Stole $3600 And Why This Scam Is Exploding

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security Culture & Awareness, Featured Articles / Tayven / May 2, 2026 / australia scams, awareness, banking security, Cyber awareness, Cyber security, fraud prevention, hi dad scam, mfa scams, online safety, scams, scamwatch, sms scams, Social engineering, text scams

A Real Incident Response Case This wasn’t a hypothetical scenario or a second‑hand story, it was a real incident I handled during an incident response call. These impersonation scams are not targeted attacks; they’re mass‑sent messages blasted out to thousands of numbers at once, hoping that one or two people respond at the wrong moment.

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The Toll Scam Text Message That Hit Me Inside the Tunnel

Leave a Comment / Cyber Security Culture & Awareness / Tayven / March 28, 2026 / Cyber awareness, Cyber security, Everyday cyber safety, Linkt scam, Mobile security, Online safety tips, Phishing awareness, Protect yourself online, Scam prevention, Scam text message, SMS scam, Social engineering, Timing-based scams, Toll road scam, Toll scam

The Everyday Cyber Security series is a practical, jargon‑free guide to staying safe online with small, easy habits. There’s a moment in every horror movie where the character realises the threat isn’t outside, it’s already inside the house! My version of that happened in the NorthConnex tunnel. I’m sitting in the passenger seat, enjoying the

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