Practical cyber security notes on cloud security, DNS hardening, open source infrastructure, home lab networking, blue-team practice, and incident response readiness — written from hands-on experience.
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Read the latest security news →DNS records are part of your business continuity stack. An automated Bash script that retrieves all Cloudflare zones, converts records to BIND format, creates timestamped backups, and runs daily via cron — keeping your DNS configuration versioned and recoverable.
Read the Cloudflare DNS backup guide →Getting ready for Splunk's Boss of the SOC ANZ 2020 — a blue-team capture-the-flag event that puts SIEM skills to the test in a realistic threat scenario.
Read the Boss of the SOC write-up →A walkthrough of running the Ubiquiti Network Controller on open source firewall hardware — combining the best of both worlds for a powerful home lab network setup.
Read the Ubiquiti controller guide →Those who know me well know I'm passionate about open source. How do you combine OSINT threat intelligence with an open source firewall running IDS/IPS? Building pfSense with live threat feeds to protect the family network.
Read the pfSense OSINT guide →DNS backups, resilience and infrastructure hardening.
pfSense, OSINT feeds and defensive tooling.
Ubiquiti controllers and home network builds.
Splunk BOTS, SIEM practice and IR readiness.
Scripts and workflows that run themselves.
CVEs, exploited vulnerabilities and threat digests.
I write about practical cyber security, cloud infrastructure, open source tools and home-lab projects — from hands-on experience building, defending and automating real systems, including blue-team / SOC work and open-source network security. More about me →