Practitioners from SOCs, red teams, threat intelligence and competitive CTF.
Director of Detection Engineering · Northbank Financial
“Detection engineering that survives contact with a real incident”
Mara has built and run detection programs at two banks and a cloud provider. She writes about alert quality, not alert quantity.
Principal Red Team Operator · Sable Security
“Living off the land in 2026: what actually still works”
Dmitri leads adversary emulation for Fortune 500 clients and maintains two open-source red team toolkits.
SOC Manager · Helios Energy
“Running a SOC through a ransomware weekend: a postmortem”
Lena runs a 24/7 SOC for critical infrastructure and speaks regularly about incident command and analyst wellbeing.
Staff Security Engineer · Parcelpoint
“Cloud posture management without the spreadsheet”
Sam automates cloud guardrails for a logistics platform spanning four clouds and far too many accounts.
Threat Intelligence Lead · Civic Trust
“Tracking initial access brokers: from forum post to fingerprint”
Priya tracks financially motivated actors and briefs national CERTs on initial access trends.
CTF Captain · Team Nullroute
“How we won three majors in a row — and what we practice”
Tom captains one of the top-ranked competitive CTF teams and coaches university players in his spare time.