Juhie Chandra

One suspicious login, followed through every gear of a SIEM: how Splunk stores, searches, schedules, and scores its way to the moment someone gets paged. TBs of data to a single event Author’s note: the research and analysis here are my own. I used Claude to help structure and sequence the draft. I write about Splunk specifically, because you cannot explain a machine honestly in the abstract, but the mechanics are roughly 90% the same in every SIEM, and there is a translation table for Elastic, Sentinel,...

First Principles Thinking While Building a Secure Product — Part 1 Table of Contents Is “Making It Work” enough? Understanding Trust Boundaries Step 1: Environment Setup and Separation of Concerns: Step 2: Database Design — The Foundation: The CIA Foundation Deep Dive into Database Security: 5.1 Authentication 5.2 Authorization 5.3 Database Integrity 5.4 Availability and Recovery Bringing It All Together If I had to build a product from scratch, how would I design it to be secure from the ground up? T...

A practical demonstration of OWASP LLM06:2025 vulnerability and its mitigation About BSides Bangalore BSides represents the grassroots spirit of the security community — conferences built by and for security professionals who want to share knowledge without barriers. The BSides Bangalore quarterly meetup continues this tradition, bringing together local security practitioners to explore emerging threats and share practical insights. In March 2025, we presented a live demonstration of one of the most crit...