Happy Thanksgiving & Update

Happy Thanksgiving, I decided to take a break from programming today and do a bit of reflection of things to be thankful this year. Originally, I was going to look at what the future could look like, but erased that part because I often don't slow down enough to appreciate the now. Today, I'm giving myself permission to do that. This year was a tough year for my family and I, but we are still thankful for what is going positive in our lives. I hope you can also find your positive experiences.

• Started a new position position as an information security specialist
• Started learning about what information security management & devsecops
• Passed PNPT
• Started a few red teaming courses
  • Attacking and Defending Active Directory
  • Red Team Operator I
  • Beginner Malware Development
  • C2 Developed in C#
• Talked directly with cyber security leaders that have helped me figure out the right path for me
• Become much more comfortable with python
• Started learning some new languages and automations
  • haskell
  • c#
  • nim
  • powershell
  • ansible
  • terraform
• Finally started using emacs after pushing it off for so long
• Gave multiple presentations at dc864
  • Personal threat modeling
  • Ad-hoc looking at domain information on the wire with ldap
  • Incident non-response

Also have a few sporadic blog post I'm porting over to .org files, a few of those now exist that were cyber news blogs during a few weeks last year. I don't think I liked aggregating the news like that, but didn't mind the commentary on them. I'll probably just continue to write about what interest me, as that seems to actually help me make progress on my goals.