I recently attended BSides NYC 2025, and it was a genuinely productive and engaging experience. This free event continues to be a fantastic resource for the community. The technical depth across al...

This stage marked a brutal break from the clean, declarative ideal of Terraform; it was the world’s worst game of Whack-A-Mole. I quickly abandoned the terraform destroy command, as continuous infr...

First Forays into Terraform Previously, we successfully established the foundational governance perimeter-a secure, multi-account environment governed by IAM Identity Center and centralized CloudT...

Introduction Why build this? After completing my AWS Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) certification, I needed to transition from theoretical knowledge to demonstrable, practical experience. ...

PS Eclipse simulates a realistic endpoint compromise where an attacker delivers a malicious binary, establishes persistence, and completes their goal of encrypting a device’s files with ransomware....

TryHackMe’s Dead End? presents a forensic challenge that combines memory and disk analysis. Although it’s marked as hard, the real difficulty came from balancing persistence with efficiency. At tim...

This room, Monday Monitor, simulates an incident investigation where the attacker establishes access, persistence, and moves toward credential theft and data exfiltration. I worked through each que...

After a few years of starting, stopping, and life happening, I finally earned my AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification. From May to August, I really focused. I reengaged with Adrian Ca...

Today, we will be exploring TryHackMe’s Tardigrade room. This challenge is marked as medium difficulty and involves a quick look at fundamental Linux forensics and persistence techniques. Like the ...

Today, we will be exploring TryHackMe’s Disgruntled room. This challenge is marked as easy difficulty and involves fundamental Linux forensics. The room is more of a guided learning experience than...