Building defenses. Executing security operations.

I’m a Cybersecurity Engineer and Air Force Officer using this space to dump my notes on tactical problem-solving, building (and breaking) secure systems, and other technical explorations.

The Indians of the American Southwest called him Coyote, those of the Pacific Coast called him Raven. Europeans called him Reynard the Fox. African-Americans called him Br’er Rabbit. In twentieth-century literature he appears first as Bugs Bunny and then as the Hacker… As technology became more important, the Trickster underwent a shift in character and became the god of crafts—of technology, if you will—while retaining the underlying roguish qualities. So we have the Sumerian Enki, the Greek Prometheus and Hermes, Norse Loki, and so on.

— Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age