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Malay Tech Journal is a bilingual field-notes blog on cloud security, AI guardrails and defence tech, written by Arif Bazli.
Malay Tech Journal is a bilingual (Bahasa Melayu / English) field-notes blog on cloud security, AI guardrails and defence tech, written by Arif Bazli for engineers who build and defend production systems.
Not about being authoritative. About having a record.
Most of what makes cloud security work, the actual production reality, lives in private Slack threads, post-mortem docs and one teammate’s notebook. None of it is searchable or shareable, and it disappears when people change teams.
This journal is my attempt to put some of that on the open web, with sources linked so you can check the claims yourself.
- Ground Truth: research essays that test vendor and industry claims against primary sources.
- AI Guardrail Engineering: designing, testing and breaking guardrails for LLM and agentic systems.
- Cloud Security Engineering: posture, identity, shift-left and remediation for cloud security engineers.
- Military AI & Defence: military AI and defence tech, with a Malaysian lens.
- Cloud security: posture, drift, identity, runtime, supply chain and multi-cloud
- AI guardrails: input/output filtering, prompt-injection defence and LLM security layers
- Agentic systems: agent runtime security, capability scoping and threat modelling
- Detection and automation: detection rules, telemetry, policy-as-code, CI/CD and secrets
- Incidents: what broke, why, and how it got fixed
- Engineers moving into cloud security who want a map of the landscape
- Security engineers learning the AI side
- AI builders who want to know what breaks in production
- Anyone who likes reading other people’s working notes
That’s how I think about technical work. Many terms don’t translate cleanly, and forcing a translation makes the text harder to read. Technical concepts travel better in the language they were coined in.
Yes. Use the MS / EN switch in the top bar. It appears on every page that has a translation.
There is no fixed schedule. I write when something is worth writing down, usually at least once a month. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get new posts.
Yes. The writing is licensed under CC BY 4.0: share or adapt it freely, credit the original post and link back to it.
Email desktop_onsite@aol.com. I read everything; replies may be slow.