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Security • Systems • Engineering

Notes, write-ups, and projects.

Designing and Implementing a SIEM: Part 1

21 Dec 2025 • 8 min • tags: SIEM, detection engineering, logging, alerting, reporting

Part 1 establishes core SIEM concepts and the implementation considerations that determine success: data sources, parsing, retention, deployment models, and success metrics.

Server Message Block(SMB)

12 Jun 2024 • 9 min • tags: smb, recon, reconnaissance7

An overview of SMB versions, ports, and common implementations, followed by a hands on reconnaissance workflow to enumerate SMB services and shares with widely used tools.

Hack The Box Walkthrough: Lame

06 Jan 2024 • 12 min • tags: HTB, CTF, walkthrough, smb, samba, CVE-2007-2447

A step by step Hack The Box Lame walkthrough covering reconnaissance and service enumeration, then exploitation of exposed services including Samba CVE-2007-2447 to gain remote access.