CAPABILITIES

Four disciplines. One security-first standard.

The same four capabilities from my homepage, expanded into full engagements: how each one runs, the tooling behind it, and the outcome you can hold me to. Every service links straight to field work — proof, not promises.

/ 01Detect. Investigate. Respond.

SOC & Cybersecurity

Most environments don't lack logs — they lack signal. This engagement builds (or overhauls) your detection capability: instrumenting the right sources, writing detection logic mapped to real adversary behaviour, and putting a documented response process behind every alert so an incident becomes a procedure instead of a panic.

WORKFLOW // 04 PHASES
  1. 01
    Scope & Baseline

    Inventory every log source and asset, map current detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK, and agree a severity and escalation matrix before anything is deployed.

  2. 02
    Instrument

    Deploy and tune the SIEM (Splunk or Wazuh), roll out Sysmon and forwarders, and wire in threat-intel enrichment so events arrive with context, not just noise.

  3. 03
    Detect & Triage

    Author Sigma-based detection rules mapped to ATT&CK techniques, tune out false positives against your real traffic, and document a triage runbook for every alert class.

  4. 04
    Respond & Report

    Contain and eradicate confirmed incidents, write the post-incident report, and deliver monthly coverage reports so you can watch detection measurably improve.

TOOLCHAIN
  • Splunk
  • Wazuh
  • Sysmon
  • Sigma
  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • TheHive
  • MISP

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THE OUTCOME

A monitored environment with measurable coverage — in my lab and client work this standard has produced 60+ detection rules across 42 MITRE ATT&CK techniques and cut mean time-to-contain from 4 hours to 22 minutes.

/ 02Architected to resist, not just run.

Secure Web Deployment

A deployment is a security decision, whether you make it deliberately or not. I build and harden the full path from DNS to origin under the assumption that the site will be scanned within hours of going live — because it will be.

Design & build work → via ArtX Studio ↗
WORKFLOW // 04 PHASES
  1. 01
    Threat-Model the Stack

    Enumerate the real exposure: open ports, DNS records, TLS posture, third-party scripts, and CI/CD secrets. Nothing gets hardened until it's mapped.

  2. 02
    Harden the Base

    Apply CIS-benchmark hardening to the OS and web server, enforce key-only SSH and least-privilege access, and lock down every service that doesn't need to be public.

  3. 03
    Encrypt & Shield

    Enforce TLS 1.3 with HSTS, deploy WAF rules and rate limiting at the edge, and put DDoS mitigation in front of the origin before launch — not after the first attack.

  4. 04
    Verify & Hand Over

    Re-scan with independent tooling, close what's found, and codify the entire hardened state in Terraform so it's reproducible — with documentation your team can actually operate.

TOOLCHAIN
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
  • Terraform
  • Let's Encrypt
  • Fail2ban
  • Lynis
  • OWASP ZAP

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THE OUTCOME

Infrastructure that survives contact: the last client launch shipped with an A+ TLS grade, 92% of flagged vulnerabilities closed on re-scan, and zero minutes of downtime through launch week.

/ 03Visibility without exposure.

Technical & Secure SEO

I audit a website the way I audit an attack surface — because to a crawler and an attacker, they're the same thing. Technical SEO done this way fixes rankings and closes exposure at the same time: staging leaks, misconfigured directives, slow render paths, and duplicate content are all the same class of problem.

WORKFLOW // 04 PHASES
  1. 01
    Crawl & Expose

    Run a full technical crawl to see exactly what search engines see: indexation leaks, redirect chains, orphaned pages, duplicate content, and anything exposed that shouldn't be.

  2. 02
    Fix the Foundations

    Rebuild the robots and sitemap strategy, enforce canonical URLs, implement structured data, and close every indexation leak — staging domains included.

  3. 03
    Accelerate

    Refactor the render path, image pipeline, and caching strategy until every Core Web Vital is in the green on real mobile devices, not just lab runs.

  4. 04
    Monitor & Defend

    Wire Search Console and Lighthouse checks into an ongoing report so gains hold, regressions get caught early, and nothing quietly re-leaks.

TOOLCHAIN
  • Screaming Frog
  • Lighthouse
  • Search Console
  • Schema.org
  • Cloudflare
  • Next.js

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THE OUTCOME

Rankings built on infrastructure that's fast and closed: the last audit delivered +38% organic traffic in 90 days, a 1.4s LCP, and zero remaining indexation leaks.

/ 04Automation that doesn't leak.

Secure Custom AI Agents

Most AI automation fails one of two ways: it doesn't actually save time, or it quietly becomes a data-leak vector. I build custom agents scoped to one real workflow, engineered against the OWASP LLM Top 10 from the first commit — so the automation compounds and the risk doesn't.

WORKFLOW // 04 PHASES
  1. 01
    Map the Workflow

    Sit with the actual process — the tickets, logs, or CRM entries eating your team's hours — and define exactly what data the agent may touch and what permissions it needs. Nothing more.

  2. 02
    Design the Guardrails

    Scoped tokens, field-level redaction, prompt-injection defenses, and output validation — designed before the first line of agent logic is written.

  3. 03
    Build & Integrate

    Python and FastAPI service with vault-backed secrets, containerized deployment, and API integrations that authenticate as the user — never as a god-mode service account.

  4. 04
    Observe & Iterate

    Full audit logging and OpenTelemetry tracing on every action, plus measured accuracy reviews so the agent improves on evidence, not vibes.

TOOLCHAIN
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • OpenAI API
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • OAuth 2.0
  • OpenTelemetry

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THE OUTCOME

Automation with receipts: a triage agent that cut manual alert review by 68%, and a CRM assistant that ran six months in production with zero PII incidents and a complete audit trail.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Freelance project

Fixed-scope engagement with defined deliverables and hardening acceptance criteria.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Retainer

Ongoing monitoring, response, and iterative hardening on your infrastructure.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Consultation

Focused review sessions — architecture, audits, or a second set of eyes.

NEXT STEP // ACCEPTING ENGAGEMENTS

Have a security gap you want mapped?

Open a channel and I'll respond with a scoped plan — deliverables, timeline, and acceptance criteria — not a sales pitch.

FREE RESOURCE // NO STRINGS

Secure Web Deployment Checklist

The exact 27-point checklist I run before any client site goes live — TLS, headers, DNS, access control, and edge protection. Request it and I'll send it over, along with one free observation about your current setup.

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