Ahmed Musaad

I am a senior security engineer, a programmer, and a hobbyist system administrator. I enjoy learning new things, solving challenging problems and writing about things I find interesting.

99 posts

How A Downtime Alert Saved My Online Infrastructure

Ahmed Musaad

The story of how a simple downtime alert helped me avert a rather terrible situation and keep my online infrastructure intact.

4 min read Apr 9, 2023

Rabbit Holes public

The Mystery of Missing Email Aliases

Ahmed Musaad

A thrilling mystery involving a popular email provider, an email security platform, an obscure bug, and a lot of missing email aliases.

3 min read Apr 6, 2023

Music public

An Evening I Will Not Forget: Dermot Kennedy Live

Ahmed Musaad

After years of being a fan, I finally got to see Dermot Kennedy perform live and it was spectacular.

3 min read Mar 13, 2023

Tools public

Scanning The Top 1000 Python Packages Using GuardDog

Ahmed Musaad

Using Guarddog to scan the top 1000 Python packages for malicious indicators.

4 min read Dec 7, 2022

Music public

Kendrick Lamar Live

Ahmed Musaad

I finally saw Kendrick Lamar perform live on stage at the Avicii Arena, and it was spectacular.

2 min read Oct 20, 2022

Poems public

A Poem About Sudan

Ahmed Musaad

A beautiful poem about Sudan.

1 min read Jun 21, 2022

Conferences public

Security Fest 2022

Ahmed Musaad

My recap for Security Fest 2022. Three days full of great talks, good company, lots of learning, astonishing views, and mouthwatering food.

8 min read Jun 5, 2022

Stockholm public

Trevor Noah & Jeff Dunham Live In Stockholm

Ahmed Musaad

It was a good week, full of laugher, good company, and two of my favourite comedians.

2 min read May 31, 2022

Events public

Go Hack Yourself Stockholm By Detectify

Ahmed Musaad

A short rundown of Detectify's latest Go Hack Yourself event in Stockholm. Good talks, cool people, and fun atmosphere.

4 min read May 20, 2022

Sweden public

Permanent Residency In Sweden

Ahmed Musaad

I recently became a permanent resident of the Kingdom of Sweden, so let me tell you a bit about the journey to becoming one.

5 min read May 11, 2022

Okta public

Avoid Unwanted Slack SSO Redirection Loop When Rolling Out Google & Third-Party IdP Integration

Ahmed Musaad

A tiny policy configuration can ruin your day and block your users from logging into Slack. Here is how to avoid this anxiety-inducing problem.

3 min read May 5, 2022

Okta public

Stream Okta Logs To Your Log Collector

Ahmed Musaad

Okta logs are only available for 90 days. Learn how to stream them to AWS EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Datadog.

6 min read May 4, 2022