Foundations of Cyber Awareness & Security Posture The start of a new year is when people rethink routines: how they work, how they manage time, how they protect their health. Cybersecurity should be no different. Most cyber incidents do not happen because of sophisticated hackers or zero-day exploits. They happen because of small, repeated behaviours: reused passwords, ignored updates, clicking links without thinking, or assuming that “nothing will happen to us”. Cybersecurit

Modern cybersecurity relies on a dense and rapidly evolving ecosystem of tools, platforms and services. While most well-known solutions come from the commercial sector — often expensive and closed — a global community of developers continues to build a powerful, transparent and mature open-source ecosystem  that today covers almost every security capability, from SIEM and EDR to SAST, SOAR, API protection and cloud security. Open-source brings a set of advantages that are par

Digital violence against women and girls today is just as devastating as physical violence. Threats, blackmail, unauthorized publication of intimate content, deepfake manipulation, so-called. "revenge pornography", online monitoring - all these phenomena leave profound consequences for mental health, safety, women's participation in public space and overall equality. As a society, we still underestimate how much the digital space is a real space of violence. This year’s 16 Da

From Lab to Operations Once components and workflows are in place, the next step is moving from a SOC-as-a-Lab  setup to a fully operational 24/7 centre . At this point, technology alone isn’t the challenge — it’s capacity, processes, and performance management . The Operational Pillars of a Modern SOC People and Skills Sustainable SOCs depend on defined roles, shift rotations, and continuous training. In smaller teams, automation and clear playbooks  compensate for limited s

Why Open-Source? For most organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina – especially in academia, civil society, and the SME sector – the biggest obstacles to establishing a SOC are not threats, but cost and staffing . Commercial SIEM and SOAR platforms can cost tens of thousands of euros per year, which is simply unrealistic for local budgets. The solution? An open-source SOC , built gradually, focusing on interoperability and community. Core idea:  Instead of one central, monolit