Applying for Concealed Carry in Santa Clara CountyIn January of 2019, I decided to document my experience attempting to apply for a concealed weapons carry license (CCW) in Santa Clara…Jul 21, 2019A response icon3Jul 21, 2019A response icon3
Passing the Infosec Phone ScreenAfter giving my fair share of interviews at multiple companies over the past 5–6 years, I’ve noticed some positive and negative qualities…Jul 10, 2018A response icon1Jul 10, 2018A response icon1
Continuous Integration for DetectionLabI picked a heck of a project to set up my first continuous integration pipeline.Feb 6, 2018A response icon1Feb 6, 2018A response icon1
Introducing: Detection LabDetection Lab is a collection of Packer and Vagrant scripts that allow you to quickly bring a Windows Active Directory online, complete…Dec 11, 2017A response icon13Dec 11, 2017A response icon13
Pwnable.kr cmd1 & cmd2 WriteupsWith the Thanksgiving holidays providing a bit of free time, I decided to poke at some of the challenges on http://pwnable.kr. I’ve been…Nov 26, 2017A response icon2Nov 26, 2017A response icon2
Byte-Order BluesIf you’ve read any of my previous stories, you know that I write quite a bit about osquery. Today was an interesting journey down the…Sep 30, 2017Sep 30, 2017
Published inHackerNoon.comThe Windows Event Forwarding Survival GuideOne security engineer’s trials and tribulations attempting to comprehend one of the least known but most powerful Windows services.Jul 24, 2017A response icon1Jul 24, 2017A response icon1
Saving $50 the Hard WayI’ve been purchasing Dell monitors ever since I can remember. The first monitor I vividly remember purchasing was a Dell 2007WFP. I loved…May 28, 2017May 28, 2017
osquery for Security — Part 2Advanced osquery functionality. File integrity monitoring, process auditing, and more.Mar 16, 2017A response icon2Mar 16, 2017A response icon2
Building a Testbed for go-audit & osqueryAfter seeing the release of Slack’s new process auditing tool, go-audit, I immediately wanted to test it out to see how it could be used by…Dec 2, 2016A response icon1Dec 2, 2016A response icon1