Now · updated September 2026

What I am doing this month.

A now page: the short, current answer to "what are you working on?", kept honest by being dated.

Building

  • Rolling Wazuh agents across the Biira Bank lab now that SIEM01 is back on dedicated hardware, then first custom detections against DC01 telemetry.
  • Rebuilding the Ansible controller (ANS01) and the monitoring host (MON01) as Proxmox guests.
  • Hardening the last three pfSense rulesets (BlueTeam, DevOps, Monitoring) to default-deny, each rule justified and mapped.
  • Phase 5.2 of the IAM lab: adaptive, risk-based MFA in Okta.
  • Configuring HashiCorp Vault on the DevOps VLAN, following the Vault notes.

Studying

  • AZ-104 Azure Administrator: prep course at 93%, exam next.
  • SC-200 Security Operations Analyst: prep course at 89%.
  • Practical SOC Analyst (TCM Security): SOC 101 at 40%, working through the investigation labs.

Thinking about

  • Treating an AI agent as a non-human identity: an AD service account, short-lived Vault credentials, firewall-scoped reach and a Wazuh audit trail, built in the lab.
  • What "evidence" means for a homelab: naming, registers and change logs that an auditor could follow, not just screenshots.

Talking about

  • Hybrid identity design, homelab builds, and the certification path. Say hello.