About CyberSam Tech Journal

CyberSam Tech Journal is my personal technical blog and Cloudflare homelab project.

The site has two purposes.

First, it is a real public-facing Ghost CMS blog where I publish technical articles, research notes, and write-ups on cybersecurity, networking, cloud, Zero Trust, and infrastructure topics. Anyone can read the site, but publishing access is restricted to me.

Second, the site itself is a hands-on security architecture project. CyberSam runs as a self-hosted Ghost CMS environment using Docker Compose and is exposed publicly through Cloudflare Tunnel, which avoids traditional inbound port forwarding to the origin environment. The site is protected with layered Cloudflare controls, including WAF custom rules, rate limiting, Cloudflare Access, Okta SSO, Email Routing, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring.

After building the environment, I ran a controlled defense simulation against my own stack to validate how the controls behaved under realistic attack patterns and operational edge cases. I documented the results in a formal post-mortem.

The goal of this site is to show practical technical work, not just theory: what I built, why I designed it that way, what broke, how I investigated it, and what changed afterward.

CyberSam Tech Journal is written and maintained by Samarth Ahuja.

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