Things about me
Hello, you seemed to have stumbled on a website about me! I am happy you are here and hope you take the time to look at everything I have to say as well as the simple but actively developed page it is all on.
I am originally from Dallas Texas but currently live in the middle of nowhere in SW Missouri on a little bit of land where
I have a few (a total of 8) animals
Cat Tax,
a small garden where I grow a different crop yearly and a few things for creating and
playing. I have a somewhat enterprise network setup that I mess around with, a small home lab that I test out different ideas in and
break stuff, a 3D printer for creating spaghetti monsters, and a gaming computer.
I am interested in technology and tinkering, which I think go hand in hand. Because of this and my beliefs, Infosec is the path I have chosen to pursue. The main reason for this choice is my belief that everyone has a right to privacy and one way I can contribute to this is by being an active defender of people’s data. Keeping people's personal data secure out of the hands of people or groups who would want to use it for malicious purposes is the first step in protecting people’s privacy. When a person gives their data to an organization, their expectation is that that data will only be known to that organization as the trust was there to give the organization the data in the first place. This is why I think organizations should treat their customer’s data with as much care as the organization's proprietary property.
The second reason for choosing Infosec is the need to tinker and learn new things. I like to see the innerworkings of stuff to pick it apart and figure out how it works, I think this is why I ended up in my current field of networking. It all started with dealing with internet issues and having to call the provider out all the time and me watching and learning as they did their thing. This led me to want to learn more about how an ISP works, which led to working for the very same ISP. I enjoyed the work and learned a lot, to the point that I was training people on how the network works, but COVID had something to say about that and I got laid off. After this hiccup, I decided to make a major move to a new place and try and find a job working inside because at this point, I had decided to work towards infosec and thought working with an enterprise network would help with that endeavor. Knowing how an ISP works helps me to understand the wider view of an enterprise network that I think most do not see the same way, even though they are not that different.
