Portfolio
Teaching & training
I specialise in making digital security practical and approachable. My teaching blends real-world puzzles with hands-on labs, helping learners move from theory to action.
- Curriculum development: Designing courses on digital defence, threat modelling, and colourful teaming strategies.
- Practical labs: Creating guided labs, grounded in realistic scenarios.
- Workshops & training: Delivering sessions on incident response, attack detection, and tooling for blue teams.
Relevant resources:
- Raising security awareness: Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Purple team: Fusing attack and defense into stronger security, and a polite nod to responsible disclosure.
- A Wolverine’s guide to controlled carnage: Where educational value meets ‘oh god, they actually did that’ (under construction).
SOC & threat hunting
Focused on operational security, I help teams build effective detection strategies and security monitoring capabilities.
- Incident detection: Building and tuning alerting systems using free and open-source tools.
- Threat hunting: Developing procedures for proactive identification of suspicious activity.
- SIEM & Logging: Implementing ELK and Wazuh setups tailored to lean organisations.
Relevant resources:
- SOC concepts: Clear overviews of SOC levels and strategies.
- SIEM notes: Techniques aligned with the Pyramid of Pain.
- Digital forensics and incident response: Logging, detection, and what to do after it’s all gone horribly wrong.
Supporting Not-for-profits
I provide affordable security support tailored to not-for-profit contexts (organisations and individuals). That means practical solutions, long-term sustainability, and mutual respect.
- Budget-friendly security: Implementing strong practices with minimal resources.
- Knowledge transfer: Training staff and volunteers, not just plugging in tools.
- Mission-aligned strategy: Helping teams protect what matters most to them.
Relevant resources:
- IPA project: Supporting Intimate Partner Abuse survivors. Ongoing.
- Digital defence @Home: Foundational security for small organisations and personal use.
- Privacy greenhouse: Tech, plainly spoken — exposing hidden risks, protecting privacy, and unpacking AI without the hype.