DevSecOpsDad

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]

🌿 Introduction & Use Case: If you’ve been following the evolution of the Raspberry Pi Soil Sensor project here on DevSecOpsDad.com, you know it began as a fun side experiment. From the original build leveraging 3rd party tools like FluentD, to the more robust Sensor 2.0 upgrade and its multi-part... [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case: There’s nothing like a perfectly smoked brisket to celebrate Father’s Day — unless, of course, your expensive WiFi-enabled Traeger Ridgeline XL, for example, can’t connect to your network. Welcome to the modern dad’s dilemma: your grill is smarter than your first laptop, but getting it online... [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case: 😤 Tired of ads stalking you across the internet like a clingy ex? What if you could not only block them at the network level 🚫🌐 but also monitor, analyze, and hunt through your home’s DNS telemetry like a SOC analyst on Red Bull? 🕵️‍♂️⚡️🥤 [Read More]

Introduction & Use Case: Deploying a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution quickly and connecting it to XDR (Extended Detection and Response) data sources in a hurry can be critical in the following, more common than you’d think, situations (no judgement, we’ve all been there): [Read More]