Category Archives: Security Blog

Our Birthdays, 2024

Because it wasn’t a milestone birthday, we had a joint birthday and invited a bunch of friends for dinner. It was really nice. For my actual birthday, I just stayed home and played video games for the most part. For … Continue reading

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Disneyland 2024

We spent a pretty awesome week over in California to have some fun in Disneyland. Jaime and I got there a little earlier than our friends so that we could spend our own time wandering the park and buying stuff … Continue reading

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Horror Fest

I finally got to meet 2 more Hackers. Horror Fest was much smaller than I thought it would be. The whole con is tiny and the lines for photos didn’t even exist. I basically followed Renoly and Laurence right in … Continue reading

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Nashville Work Trip

A few months ago we planned to get our senior leadership team together for an onsite in Nashville. I flew out the night before and so did a couple of my peers. It was different than the our normal set … Continue reading

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Hackers Movie: Matthew Lillard

In 1995, the movie Hackers, came out and I was already interested in computers and knew that I would make that my career when I got out of the Marine Corps. My computer interest turned into a job in information … Continue reading

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.conf 2024

It was my first time going to a Splunk conference. I didn’t start planning until 2 weeks ago. Since we got “free” tickets, which just comes with our huge Splunk renewal, I wanted to give my team all the chances … Continue reading

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RSA Conference 2024

Though I’m a day late to the conference, it was more than enough to spend some good quality time with my team and enjoy the conference and also meet up with some of my friends. I stayed at the Parker … Continue reading

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Phoenix SIEM Project

I know I don’t post too much about work and work projects because it’s just something mostly private and work related. But I think I could post this. I have both Splunk and Cribl in my SIEM environment and because … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity Summit in Scottsdale

I went to the Cybersecurity Summit at the Phoenician, which is in Scottsdale. It’s not my first time at this venue. It’s pretty snazzy. The thing is though, that to get there “on time” I had to sit in about … Continue reading

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Crowdstrike’s Fal.Con 2023

Nick had some extra passes that came with our contract and we tried to get our teams to go, and only a few actually wanted to, so I accompanied them. It’s a long drive to Vegas, about 5 hours long, … Continue reading

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