Personal projects will ALWAYS end up taking more time than you expect. Let’s dive into how I created the website you are currently reading this on by using Jekyll on AWS S3 fronted by CloudFront. Development If you want to take the route of using Jekyll to de...

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Published on October 07, 2024 | 10 min read

Updated - 8/16/2025 AWS Certified Security - Specialty Hey everyone! I wanted to give a brief recap of what I did to prepare for the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam and an overview of my exam experience in case it helps anyone els...

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Published on November 16, 2020 | 4 min read

Wow two blog posts in one month, that’s a first from me :) In May of this year I was fortunate enough to partake in my second SANS training course with some friends from work. We travelled to San Diego, California and I took the <a href="https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/defeating-ad...

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Published on October 22, 2019 | 1 min read

I was once in the position where I was on the outside of the cybersecurity field striving to make the transition. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as just applying to cybersecurity positions as most of these positions require “experience.” The good thing is that most of the experience they are...

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Published on October 04, 2019 | 3 min read

Hey Everyone, I hope y’all have had a great start to 2019! I’m going to discuss an article about the 2017 Equifax Data Breach in this blog post that illustrates how important basic security measures are. The article is titled Equifax b...

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Published on February 04, 2019 | 2 min read

Hey Everyone! It’s been crazy lately, but the good kind of crazy. I would say Las Vegas is definitely a fun/interesting place to have a SANS training course. I recently took the SANS Web App Pene...

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Published on November 07, 2018 | 1 min read

It’s been a long time since my first post, but Security Sting is ready to get the ball rolling. I have completed my Master’s degree and finished up my transition into a new Information Security role at work. I believe I will now have more time to focus on Security Sting and will keep the posts...

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Published on August 14, 2018 | 1 min read

Hello everyone! I am excited to announce the first blog post of Security Sting. I want these posts to be as useful as possible to anyone reading them. Therefore, please leave comments or contact me with any topics you would like me to focus on. I am finishing up the second to last class in my ...

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Published on March 11, 2018 | 1 min read