Coming Back to Writing - and My First Cybersecurity Project

Short summary

A developer transitioning into cybersecurity shares their first project: an IOC Enricher tool that queries VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, and MalwareBazaar in parallel and returns a combined risk score with an AI summary. The key lesson was discovering a silent authentication failure in MalwareBazaar's API that returned 'not found' instead of an error, highlighting how silent failures in security tools can be dangerous. The author honestly frames this as a beginner portfolio piece, not a novel contribution.

• •IOC Enricher tool queries three threat intel APIs in parallel with AI summary
• •Silent API auth failure taught a critical lesson about security tool reliability
• •Honest documentation of a beginner's dev-to-security transition project

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