2 Posts, 384 Following, 320 Followers · Maker, breaker and fixer of software. Adventures in #appsec and #agile: beny23.github.io he/him| Infosec Exchange
There’s a metaphor about the fight between attackers and defenders in the Denial of Service cybersecurity game. It’s an “arms race” between ever bigger attacks throwing huge amounts of traffic at ever more sophisticated defenses (e.g. AWS shield). Incidentally, I’ve just demonstrated an easy mistake: I’m not describing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, it’s a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The aim is to overwhelm the infrastructure, either the networking infrastruc...| beny23.github.io
In this post, I describe my personal experience of being part of a software development team working with Equal Experts and HMRC during Covid-19. Under normal circumstances, we’re responsible for tax services such as Self Assessment, PAYE Expenses and Benefits, VAT submissions amongst others. These services run on the Multi-channel Digital Tax Platform (MDTP). This platform is hosted in a hyperscale cloud (the cloud provider has a sideline selling books), run in-house by HMRC teams made up ...| beny23.github.io