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Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance
Catherine Southwick 25/08/2026

Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance

Analyst turnover can start to become a barrier to improving security operations because you’re having to continually rebuild capability rather than developing from within the team. The most effective SOCs create structured career pathways rather than isolated training plans, giving you and your team members a shared roadmap for progression.

CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity
Ben Gonsalves 13/08/2026

CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity

CPTA is designed to give you a structured, practical way to build offensive cybersecurity skills. You’ll work through practical labs and realistic scenarios, applying what you’re learning across infrastructure, Active Directory, web applications and AWS environments.

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JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Creating a malware analysis lab for Smartloader

We need a suitable environment to detonate the malware in a repeatable fashion. This environment should allow us to substitute our mock APIs and host to ensure the malware operates as close to real as possible.

JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild
SBT Content Engineers 28/02/2025

JIT Happens: Exposing LuaJIT Malware in the Wild

This blog series will explore Centri's adventure into the reverse engineering of a novel SmartLoader malware variant. This malware was discovered during our research into Belsen Group's high-profile FortiGate leak. This leak was advertised as containing a list of affected companies with associated configuration data from their FortiGate devices.

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs
Luis Suastegui 21/02/2025

Black Basta: Unmasking the Ransomware Gang Through Leaked Chat Logs

The Black Basta ransomware gang recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons when someone using the online handle “ExploitWhispers” shared internal chat logs of the group with the public — close to a year’s worth of messages in a JSON file.

GitHub & Discord's Secret File Locker: A Hacker's Playground?
Malik Girondin 21/02/2025

GitHub & Discord's Secret File Locker: A Hacker's Playground?

This write-up is a POC (Proof of Concept) to demonstrate a potential vulnerability in GitHub and Discord that can be exploited. You are free to verify the issue, as we encourage the developers at GitHub and Discord to properly secure their systems to lower the risk of an exploit.

Faces of Centri: Trevor, Director of Cloud Services
Melissa Boyle 22/01/2025

Faces of Centri: Trevor, Director of Cloud Services

Welcome to our first Faces of Centri blog post, where we’ll be showcasing a member of our team and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work at Centri. First up is Trevor, our Director of Cloud Services.