My Tech & Skill Stack
I'm constantly reevaluating the skills, tools, and technologies that I leverage day-to-day. This is why I've created a whole knowledge base dedicated to living in the realm of cyber. There are so many interesting tools and solutions being created everyday, and if I don't do my due diligence in exploring these evolving solution landscapes, then I'll miss something awesome and beautiful that can change how I look at cyberspace.
For a more complete list of tools check out my knowledge base.
Cybersecurity Tools
I 've used a lot of tools (some more than others):
- Splunk, Hunters, Cribl
- Kali Linux
- Snort, Cisco FTD
- Volatility, Autopsy, FTK Imager
- Microsoft SysInternals
- Sentinel, Elastic Search
- Python (~10 other programming languages )
- Burp Suite
- Powershell
- Wireshark
- SAST Tools
- Cybereason (Endpoint Detection Response)
- Airavana (Secrets Detection & PII Discovery)
- Cloud Hosting & Virtualization: AWS, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Azure
- VMware, Virtualbox
- Containerization & Self-Hosting: Docker, Portainer
- IAM: Windows AD, Okta
Skills
Technical Skills
- Endpoint Hardening & Basic Qualitative Risk Assessment
- SIEM Queries, Security Event Architectures and Design
- Advanced Networking
- Data Engineering & Analytics
- Integrating Tools & Services
- Scripting: Most OS's
- Process Design
- Documentation (distinguished from others)
- Graphic Design & Media
- OSINT
- Linux & Windows
- Secure Coding & Application Security
- Malware Analysis
- Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)
- Asset Mapping & Discovery
- Knowledge of a myriad of technologies
- Threat Modeling Mindset
- Basic Project Management
- Web Development
- Cloud Hosting & Security
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Soft Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Innovative
- Studious & Inquisitive
- Problem-solving
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Clear Concise Communication
- Good-hearted
- Passionate
More Tools
- Containers: Docker, Podman
- Virtualbox & VMware
- Excel & Power Query
- PostgreSQL, Oracle DB,
- OneTrust (Data Privacy)
Cybersecurity needs innovative skill sets. There are so many tools out there. What matters is that you can engineer solutions with combinations of them.