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Naol Mengistu

Naol Mengistu

Cybersecurity Engineer & Researcher

This space is where I document my hands-on projects in digital forensics, cloud security, and automated GRC, turning theory into practical code and analysis.

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Browser Extensions and the Trust Lifecycle
·9 mins
Security Engineering
Building an Enterprise Sysadmin Home Lab: A Hands-On Learning Environment
·8 mins
Sysadmin Security Tutorial
The Limits of Automation: Where Human Judgment Still Beats AI in Security Auditing
·5 mins
Strategy Security AI
The Explainability Dilemma: Can We Trust AI to Make Security Decisions?
·5 mins
AI Security Ethics
Beyond the Hype: What 'Agentic AI' Actually Means for a Security Analyst
·5 mins
AI Security Strategy
What My Master's Thesis on DORA Taught Me About the Gap Between Developers and Lawyers
·5 mins
Strategy Security Culture