SOC Home Lab Part1: Set Up and Configuration
- Insert corrected network topology; explain why and how correction will allow SPAN to monitor entire home network
Technical Reports
Self-Hosting Private Server – Part 3: The Return of the Server
A real-world account of how an Immich deployment became intermittently unreachable from the outside, why the router's UI misled diagnostics, and how a full IPv6 subsystem reset exposed the true cause.
Self-Hosting Private Server – Part 1: A New Server
Secure SSH setup and DHCP reservation on Ubuntu Server for stable self-hosted services.
Self-Hosting Private Server – Part 2: The Router's Firewall Strikes Back
Final working design: Immich behind Caddy with IPv6‑only public access via deSEC. What changed, why it works, verification, and a fallback plan for IPv4‑only users.
Failed Investigation of ~50 TB of Data Upstreamed Spanning 4 Months
Sensitive identifiers (WAN IPs, MACs, hostnames) have been anonymized.
How a Forgotten IoT Device on My Network Introduced Me to Cybersecurity and What I've Learned
An entrepreneurial dive into network security from a real-world perspective.
Technical Report: Rogue SSID Detection and Network Investigation
Sensitive identifiers (WAN IPs, MACs, hostnames) have been anonymized.