Blue team engineering, threat intel, and the automation turning point.

I defend networks for a living — detection engineering, CTI, and the operational glue between tools. Automation is changing what a small defensive team can do, and I'm writing down what actually works.

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hello, world

Why this site exists, what I plan to write here, and how the whole thing ships.

  • meta
~/attack-map what the writing covers
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0/76 techniques covered · lit cells link to the writing
# tag posts with techniques: ['T1566'] frontmatter to light the map

~/projects view all →
detect/

detection-notes wip

Public detection engineering notes: rules and hunting queries mapped to ATT&CK, with the false-positive war stories included.

  • detection
  • attack
intel/

cti-lab active

Self-hosted threat intelligence stack — OpenCTI, MISP, and the collection pipelines that feed them.

  • cti
  • infrastructure
automate/

glue active

Automation patterns for SOC workflows: enrichment, triage, and the boring plumbing that gives analysts their hours back.

  • automation
  • soar
~/signals newest known-exploited vulns
CVE-2026-118527IvantiConnect Secure — Ivanti Connect Secure Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers Vulnerability
CVE-2026-111357IvantiConnect Secure — Ivanti Connect Secure Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability
CVE-2026-97229GitLabCommunity Edition and Enterprise Edition — GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability
CVE-2026-76418CiscoSecure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software — Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability
CVE-2026-41709BroadcomVMware ESX — Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Vulnerability
CVE-2026-46300LinuxKernel — Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable Vulnerability

source: CISA KEV catalog · syncs nightly via Actions · last new entries 2026-10-31