IT Infrastructure & Cyber Security

Erdoğan
Özdemir.

10+ years securing and operating enterprise IT across banking, aviation, and conglomerates. Based in Dubai. Sharing what I've actually learned — not polished theory, but real notes from real deployments.

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10+
Years experience
10
Blog posts
MSc
Cyber Security
Erdoğan Özdemir
Erdoğan Özdemir
IT Infra & Cyber Security · Dubai 🇦🇪
SIEM Zero Trust VMware AWS ITIL 4 IAM/PAM
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Featured Post
The CrowdStrike Outage: What Every IT Team Should Take Away
8.5 million Windows devices. 5,000+ flights cancelled. One faulty sensor update. The July 2024 incident is the most important resilience lesson of the decade — here's what it means for enterprise IT.
Cyber Security Jan 2025 6 min read →
IAM
Microsoft Entra ID: Modernizing Enterprise Identity
Azure AD is now Entra ID — but the real shift is deeper. A practitioner's guide.
Jan 2025 · 7 min →
Cyber Security
AI in the SOC: Separating Hype from Reality
Every vendor claims AI-powered detection. Here's what actually works — and what doesn't.
Dec 2024 · 6 min →
Cyber Security
Ransomware Resilience: Building a Recovery-First Strategy
Prevention alone isn't enough. A framework for when prevention fails.
Nov 2024 · 7 min →
Cyber Security
SIEM Implementation: Key Lessons from the Field
More organizational than technical. Lessons from centralizing log monitoring at enterprise scale.
Oct 2024 · 5 min →
Cyber Security
Zero Trust Architecture: Where to Actually Start
Most guides describe the destination. This one focuses on the journey in an existing enterprise.
Sep 2024 · 6 min →
Cloud
Cloud Security Posture Management: A Practitioner's Guide
Misconfiguration is still the #1 cause of cloud breaches. CSPM is how you find them first.
May 2024 · 6 min →