This past year was an absolute rollercoaster. From the low of losing our 5 year old cat to cancer, to the high of obtaining my Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification, I foun...

After earning my Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification I felt like I was riding a wave of accomplishment; I truly believed I was ready to hack anything! So to keep riding t...

How’s that for a clickbait headline? 😜 But in all seriousness, there is one thing that I regularly see the best Application Security teams do - and which so many AppSec professionals seem to avoid ...

Well, it happened - In late June I sat for my first attempt at the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam and failed. Failing the first attempt with the OSCP is pretty common - and I...

Having recently completed the required exercises for locking-in bonus points on the exam, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I’ve learned through reacquainting myself with the repeatable proce...

Yesterday my wife and I had to say goodbye to our handsome five year old cat named Dalinar 😢 We learned last week that he had an advanced stage of intestinal cancer in two locations, and best case ...

One of the great joys of working with technology - especially in the Information Security industry - is that the space is constantly evolving. This offers perpetual opportunity for individuals to r...

The knowledge shared in this post is derived from my experience building the DevSecOps program at Thermo Fisher Scientific - a global Fortune 100 laboratory sciences company with over 130,000 emplo...

As I start moving my notes from Notion to Obsidian in order to reduce the chance of losing access to them on exam day, I thought I’d share the initial recon process I’ve been using to work through ...

Full Disclosure up-front: I am employed as a Principal Security Specialist at GitHub at the time of publishing this post. I disclose this because GitHub recently released Copilot - an artificially ...