I am currently the Lead Security Engineer within the Security Response Team at Wayfair, focusing on the improvement of Wayfair’s security baseline through the implementation of preventative and detective security controls. In particular, I am focusing on automating and improving the Security Operations Center (SOC) while improving my understanding of DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.
I hold a Honour’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, and international certifications such as OSCP, CRT, AWS SAA and more, which are linked below.
Previous to Wayfair, I was:
Cloud Security Researcher at eSentire focusing on the implementation of detective security controls for eSentire’s XDR solution. In particular, I was responsible for determining the cloud security roadmap for eSentire and then creating threat detections across all major cloud providers and container based environments based on the roadmap.
A Senior Cyber Security Consultant at MWR CyberSec (previously F-Secure Consulting), with a focus on delivering strategic Cloud and Active Directory (AD) based assessments. The assessments encompassed all aspects within the Cyber Kill-Chain across large corporate networks and environments in order to provide meaningful security hardening recommendations.
Security Operations Centre (SOC) manager for a large financial institution in South Africa, my responsibilities included the day-to-day management of the SOC, and consolidating and improving the effectiveness of the security monitoring capability through the design and implementation of a transformation roadmap spanning people, processes and technology.
Blog Posts
I blog about cyber security, mental wellbeing, my take on the industry, and I am currently working on Blue Team focused blog posts. My blog posts can be found on the main page or a listing per category is provided here. I’ve tried to add the correct tags to each of the posts so that they can easily be identified by their categories. If you enjoy my blog please feel free to reach out to me.
Accreditations
In addition to the badges below, I have also obtained the CREST CRT and CPSA accreditations, but I cannot find a way to retrieve a digital badge for them.