Betty Coder Security Labs // Hands-On Defense & Proof-of-Work
Welcome to Charlottes Cyber Labs. Hosted by Charlotte Salcedo (M.S. in Cybersecurity & Information Assurance), this platform delivers actionable security research, lab write-ups, technical tutorials, and unvarnished strategies for breaking into the cybersecurity workforce.
Core Focus Areas
🧪 Lab Write-ups & Projects
Step-by-step walkthroughs of home lab builds, Apache server hardening, CTF challenges, and defensive configuration baseline audits.
🛠️ Security Tutorials
Actionable recipes for wireless defense, Evil Twin attack analysis, custom Python security tooling, and system administration scripts.
🚀 Breaking Into Cyber
No-nonsense hiring market trends, resume engineering, building technical portfolios, and moving beyond the certification trap.
📡 News & Industry Trends
Analysis of emerging threat vectors, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards, zero-day research, and regulatory shifts.
Featured Research & Write-ups
- LAB WRITE-UP
Apache Web Server Hardening Guide for Linux
Suppressing ServerTokens banners, setting up custom .htaccess directives, and injecting X-Frame-Options security headers to stop automated bot scans.
- TUTORIAL
Recipe for Defense: Deconstructing an Evil Twin Wi-Fi Attack
Analyzing 802.11 deauthentication vectors, hostapd rogue AP setups, and enterprise mitigations using 802.1X EAP-TLS and PMF (802.11w).
- CAREER STRATEGY
Why Degrees and Certifications Alone Won’t Get You Hired
Unfiltering the reality of the cybersecurity hiring market and building a practical proof-of-work portfolio that wins technical interviews.
The Proof-of-Work Philosophy
Certifications show you can study for an exam; a technical portfolio shows you can solve operational problems on day one. Betty Coder Security Labs was established to document practical security work in real time, serving as an open research notebook and demonstration of hands-on technical capability.