🔐 Tonight, 7PM WAT. #TechnicalTuesdays: Dylib Injection via Process Environment Variables with Emmanuel Bakare, Senior DevOps Engineer. Does your app trust its environment too much? Come find out. Joining? Drop a 🔐 @ireteeh @_DeejustDee @cyberjeremiah @segoslavia #APISEC

Mentee Spotlight @RootHawk_ ✨ When Jonathan began his cybersecurity journey, he was learning in different directions without a clear path. That changed when he joined my mentorship program as the 50th and final mentee selected. Despite being disqualified at the second interview stage, I saw his potential and gave him a second chance that helped shape his career. During the program, Jonathan took on three leadership roles, leading the initial group, becoming the Ethical Hacking track lead, and later leading his final project team. He gained hands-on cybersecurity experience, strengthened his collaboration and communication skills, and celebrated a major milestone when his team won a CTF competition. He also built LinkGuard, a Slack bot that checks links for potential threats, which was deployed across the mentorship community. His growth continued beyond the program through APIsec University, where he progressed from Trial Ambassador to Ambassador, became the lead of the first official APIsec University Nigeria chapter, and later took on global community roles as a Community Moderator and Central Chapters Coordinator. Jonathan has since hosted API security technical sessions, conducted web and mobile API penetration testing, and collaborated with CybariK to organize the first APIsec University Nigeria and CybariK on-site event, attracting over 100 attendees. He continues to build practical cybersecurity solutions, including BurpHub, a Burp Suite activity tracker designed to help security practitioners monitor usage and maintain consistent learning and testing streaks. For Jonathan, the mentorship offered more than technical knowledge. It provided structure, practical experience, leadership opportunities, confidence, and a valuable professional network. From receiving a second chance to leading teams, winning competitions, building security tools, and coordinating a global community, Jonathan’s journey shows what is possible when opportunity meets consistency and determination. His standout moments are leading, building, competing, and most importantly, learning by contributing.

🎙️ Tonight, 7PM WAT. AMA with Jennifer Baca, Cybersecurity Risk Leader, on our Discord. Got a question? Comment now and we’ll ask it live. Tag someone who should be there 👇 @ireteeh @_DeejustDee @TemitopeSobulo @segoslavia @ce3nerd @akintunero #APISEC #AMA

Congratulations to my mentee @RootHawk_ who recently passed the following certifications on the first attempt 🎉🎉🎉 Certified API Security Analyst
APISEC Certified Practitioner
API Security Certified Professional You were the last person I brought into my mentorship program, and today, I’m grateful that I took a chance on you 🤍 Watching you achieve this milestone is a reminder of why I believe in investing in people and their potential. I’m rooting for your continued growth and success. This is only the beginning ✨

🎙️ AMA alert. Ask Jennifer Baca, Cybersecurity Risk Leader, anything. 🗓️ Thu, Oct 15 · 7-8PM WAT 📍 Our Discord Drop your question below and we’ll put it to her live 👇 @ireteeh @_DeejustDee @segoslavia @akintunero @ce3nerd @TemitopeSobulo #APISEC #AMA