London, UK -  Cyber security professional with a particular interest in incident response and forensics, event logging, SOC, and SIEM management. SANS Cyber Retraining Academy graduate and ex-journalist

History

2017- Cyber security incident response, SOC, SIEM, log management and analytics

2017 SANS Cyber Retraining Academy, London (funded by HM Government)

2013-17 Cyber security journalist (print and online)

Interests

  • Cyber security
  • Technology
  • Coding (Python, C#)
  • Reading
  • Running
  • Guitar
  • Video games (PS4, PC)

Currently thinking about

SQLite
I've just pushed Backutil v0.61, which now uses SQLite for all data manipulation, thus saving time and reducing its file size by 80 per cent. This project showed me how powerful SQLite is, and I'll definitely be using it more in future!

History

2017- Cyber security incident response, SOC, SIEM, log management and analytics

2017 SANS Cyber Retraining Academy, London (funded by HM Government)

2013-17 Cyber security journalist (print and online)

Interests

  • Cyber security
  • Technology
  • Coding (Python, C#)
  • Reading
  • Running
  • Guitar
  • Video games (PS4, PC)

Currently thinking about

SQLite
I've just pushed Backutil v0.61, which now uses SQLite for all data manipulation, thus saving time and reducing its file size by 80 per cent. This project showed me how powerful SQLite is, and I'll definitely be using it more in future!

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2021-04-02
File carving: Recovering a deleted file from a Windows disk image
2021-03-26
Backutil development: Building and JOINing SQLite databases in Python
2021-01-01
Introducing Backutil: A Python‐based Windows backup utility
2020-12-22
The best cyber security and technology books I read during 2020
2020-11-20
AWS: Deploying and connecting to a SQL database in the cloud
2020-11-15
AWS: Deploying a virtual network and server in the cloud
2020-09-12
Cracking a password-protected ZIP file with fcrackzip
2020-09-02
Network connections and packet crafting on the Linux command line
2020-07-18
Technicolor TG582n router: The missing event logging manual
2020-07-04
Welcome to a new website with a new philosophy