DevSecOpsDad

Introduction & Use Case: Welcome to the very first entry in my new 🧰 PowerShell Toolbox series — a four-part deep-dive built for cloud engineers, security architects, auditors, and anyone who’s ever inherited an Azure environment held together by duct tape and wishful thinking. If you’ve ever been asked, “Hey,... [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case: Every security team has a few ghosts in the machine 👻 — the forgotten servers quietly running business-critical software that fell off the vendor’s support list years ago ☠️. [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case 🕸️ Every October, the soldering irons come out ⚡, the LEDs start to flicker🚨, and I find myself knee-deep in code👨‍💻, hot glue🧴, and pumpkin guts🎃. It’s tradition at this point — a blend of maker-mayhem and mild madness that turns my workshop into something between... [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case: In the modern SOC, more data isn’t always better data. When you connect a Fortinet firewall to Microsoft Sentinel for full-spectrum visibility👀, the first thing you notice is… the noise 🔊. Specifically: connection teardown events — hundreds of thousands of them 💥. [Read More]

When I started DevSecOpsDad.com, it was just a space to share hands-on lessons from my home lab — Defender for Endpoint tests, Sentinel workbooks, Pi-hole telemetry, the occasional Microsoft XDR deep dive between briskets. Fast forward to today, and those late-night experiments have turned into a published book — a... [Read More]