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Obaida Al-Sulaiman

Information Security Manager · CISSP · CEH · OSCP

The Joomla vs WordPress security debate usually gets answered with loyalty, not evidence. The honest version is duller and more useful: both platforms ship a secure core, and both get breached through third-party code far more than through a core bug. Joomla bundles more security controls by default, while WordPress patches its core faster and […]
Joomla security features are one of the platform’s real advantages: the core ships controls that most content management systems leave to plugins. Out of the box you get two-factor authentication, granular access control, forced HTTPS, input filtering, and a dedicated Security Strike Team behind the code. This guide walks through every built-in feature Joomla 4, […]
Is Joomla secure? The honest answer is yes, with an asterisk. Joomla ships one of the more hardened cores in the CMS world, with two-factor authentication, granular access control, and a dedicated Security Strike Team built in. But no CMS keeps a neglected site safe. Most hacked Joomla sites fall to an outdated core, an […]
Joomla SQL injection is one of the oldest and most damaging ways an attacker takes over a Joomla site, and it is still live in 2026. A single unfiltered parameter can let an attacker read your database, dump password hashes, or forge an administrator session. Joomla core has been patched against several critical cases over […]
Threat Intelligence vs Vulnerability Management is one of the most common points of confusion in security, and the two are partners, not competitors. Vulnerability management is the internal discipline of finding, prioritizing, and fixing the weaknesses in your own systems. Threat intelligence is the external discipline of understanding attackers, their tools, and which flaws they […]
Learning How to Prioritize Vulnerability Remediation means deciding which security flaws to fix first based on the real risk they pose, not just their severity score. With scanners flagging thousands of findings and no team able to patch them all, prioritization is the decision layer that separates the handful of vulnerabilities attackers can actually exploit […]
Agentless vs Agent Based scanning is the central design choice in cloud security tooling. Agentless scanning assesses your cloud without installing a security sensor inside each workload, using cloud-native techniques such as APIs, snapshots, registries, and logs. Agent-based scanning deploys a sensor on the systems that need deep runtime visibility, watching activity from the inside. […]
Common cloud misconfigurations are security-relevant settings that leave cloud resources more exposed than intended, for example a public data store, an overly broad IAM role, an unrestricted management port, or logging that never reaches the security team. They are usually not zero-days. They are configuration, identity, network, and governance mistakes that can turn otherwise secure […]
A cloud security audit checklist is the structured list of domains and controls you review to confirm your cloud environment is configured, governed, and defended as your policies and obligations require. It spans asset inventory, identity, secrets, data protection, logging, network, configuration, change management, vulnerabilities, workloads, backup, incident response, third-party assurance, and governance, each backed […]
A cloud security scan is an automated assessment of cloud accounts, workloads, data, identities, and configuration settings that looks for vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, excessive permissions, exposed resources, and technical control gaps before an attacker finds them. Depending on the scanner and the integrations enabled, it may assess AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, […]
Knowing how to check the Drupal version of a website helps you answer a critical security question: does the site still receive security updates? An unsupported Drupal branch can continue running normally while accumulating publicly known vulnerabilities that will never receive an official patch, This guide explains three reliable ways to check the version of […]
Is Drupal secure? The honest answer is yes, with an important condition: Drupal provides a strong security foundation, but the security of a live website still depends on its version, contributed modules, custom code, permissions, hosting environment, and patching process.Drupal core is backed by a formal Security Team and a coordinated disclosure process. However, many […]
Threat Intelligence vs Vulnerability Management is one of the most common points of confusion in security, and the two are partners, not competitors. Vulnerability management is the internal discipline of finding, prioritizing, and fixing the weaknesses in your own systems. Threat intelligence is the external discipline of understanding attackers, their tools, and which flaws they […]
Learning How to Prioritize Vulnerability Remediation means deciding which security flaws to fix first based on the real risk they pose, not just their severity score. With scanners flagging thousands of findings and no team able to patch them all, prioritization is the decision layer that separates the handful of vulnerabilities attackers can actually exploit […]
Agentless vs Agent Based scanning is the central design choice in cloud security tooling. Agentless scanning assesses your cloud without installing a security sensor inside each workload, using cloud-native techniques such as APIs, snapshots, registries, and logs. Agent-based scanning deploys a sensor on the systems that need deep runtime visibility, watching activity from the inside. […]
Common cloud misconfigurations are security-relevant settings that leave cloud resources more exposed than intended, for example a public data store, an overly broad IAM role, an unrestricted management port, or logging that never reaches the security team. They are usually not zero-days. They are configuration, identity, network, and governance mistakes that can turn otherwise secure […]
A cloud security audit checklist is the structured list of domains and controls you review to confirm your cloud environment is configured, governed, and defended as your policies and obligations require. It spans asset inventory, identity, secrets, data protection, logging, network, configuration, change management, vulnerabilities, workloads, backup, incident response, third-party assurance, and governance, each backed […]
A cloud security scan is an automated assessment of cloud accounts, workloads, data, identities, and configuration settings that looks for vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, excessive permissions, exposed resources, and technical control gaps before an attacker finds them. Depending on the scanner and the integrations enabled, it may assess AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, […]
Knowing how to check the Drupal version of a website helps you answer a critical security question: does the site still receive security updates? An unsupported Drupal branch can continue running normally while accumulating publicly known vulnerabilities that will never receive an official patch, This guide explains three reliable ways to check the version of […]
Is Drupal secure? The honest answer is yes, with an important condition: Drupal provides a strong security foundation, but the security of a live website still depends on its version, contributed modules, custom code, permissions, hosting environment, and patching process.Drupal core is backed by a formal Security Team and a coordinated disclosure process. However, many […]
An open port in cyber security is a TCP or UDP port that is reachable and has a service accepting network traffic. Ports allow one device to reach a specific service on another, such as SSH on TCP port 22 or HTTPS on TCP port 443. Open ports are necessary for websites, email, DNS, remote […]
A use-after-free vulnerability happens when a program keeps using a piece of memory after it has already handed that memory back to the system. The leftover reference, called a dangling pointer, still points at the old spot. If an attacker manages to fill that spot with their own data, the program may read or run […]
The most common wordpress vulnerabilities almost never live in WordPress core. They hide in the plugins and themes you installed and forgot about. Security researchers logged 7,966 new WordPress vulnerabilities in 2024, and 96% of them sat in plugins, 4% in themes, and only seven in core itself. So the honest version of this guide […]
Knowing how to check if a WordPress plugin is safe before you install it is the single most useful security habit a site owner can build, because plugins, not WordPress itself, cause the overwhelming majority of hacks. A polished-looking plugin can still carry outdated code, an unpatched vulnerability, or in the worst case, deliberately malicious […]

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Obaida Al-Sulaiman

Information Security Manager, Dubai

12+ years in information security. Specialises in web application security, vulnerability management, and external attack surface reduction for SMB and mid-market organisations.

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