About

Who am I?

Cybersecurity professional working in the space where technology meets business. I combine a solid technical foundation with a strategic mindset — understanding risk, making it understandable for others, and helping shape security that actually works in practice.

Approach

I combine technical depth with strategic thinking. While I enjoy getting hands-on with infrastructure and security tooling, my focus is on the bigger picture — how security programs are built, how risk is communicated, and how technical decisions align with business objectives.

Background

Years of experience across cybersecurity, IT & OT infrastructure, and risk management. Background spanning technology, critical infrastructure, and medical — environments where security decisions carry real weight.

Philosophy

Security should be a business enabler, not a bottleneck. The most effective security programs are built on trust, clear communication, and pragmatic risk decisions — not on fear or compliance checklists alone.

What I Bring

Security Architecture

Zero trust, cloud security, network segmentation, infrastructure hardening

Threat Management

Threat modeling, incident response, vulnerability management

SecOps & Automation

Monitoring, detection engineering, SIEM, security automation

Strategic Thinking

Risk assessment, security program design, translating technical risk into business context

This Site

defaire.cc is where I write about cybersecurity strategy, infrastructure, and the occasional deep-dive into the homelab where I test ideas hands-on.

Built with Next.js and self-hosted on a 3-node HA K3s cluster running on Proxmox. Storage is backed by NVMe-oF/TCP from TrueNAS, with automated CI/CD through Gitea Actions. TLS is handled by cert-manager with wildcard certificates, and the whole stack is monitored via Zabbix — because understanding the technology you're securing matters.