London, UK - Cyber security professional specialising in incident response and forensics, detection engineering, threat hunting, and SOC development. Former business and technology journalist
Interests
- Cyber security and tech
- Coding (Python, PS, JS, C#)
- Psychology, philosophy
- Running and exercise
- Gaming (PC, PS5)
- Sport (F1, football)
- Music (guitar)
Currently thinking about
Modular code
I'm currently undertaking a huge project to split a code base into reusable functions and libraries to make it easier to build upon and maintain, which will likely be the topic
of a future blog post
2024-07-20
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) - setting the record straight
2023-11-26
Centralisation, repeatability, and automation in a modular SOC
2023-03-26
Cyber security sometimes means learning things backwards
2023-02-17
Using winget to automate software deployment to a new laptop
2022-12-14
Investigating Explorer's temporary ZIP folders and retrieving files
2022-12-03
Parsing login sessions from the Windows event log with PowerShell
2022-08-21
Using Tkinter to build simple GUIs for Python apps
2022-02-22
Linux .bash_history: Basics, behaviours, and forensics
2022-01-08
SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2021: Slot machine walkthrough
2022-01-08
SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2021: Yara rule analysis walkthrough