What's on the bench.
Implementing Security Information Sharing With Stix2
Create, validate, and share STIX 2.1 threat intelligence objects using the stix2 Python library. Covers indicators, malware, campaigns, relationships, bundles, and TAXII 2.1 publishing.
Implementing Security Chaos Engineering
Implements security chaos engineering experiments that deliberately disable or degrade security controls to verify detection and response capabilities. Tests WAF bypass, firewall rule removal, log pipeline disruption, and EDR disablement scenarios using boto3 and subprocess. Use when validating SOC detection coverage and resilience.
Implementing Secrets Scanning In CI CD
Integrate gitleaks and trufflehog into CI/CD pipelines to detect leaked secrets before deployment
Implementing Secrets Management With Vault
This skill covers deploying HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management across cloud environments, including dynamic secret generation for databases and cloud providers, transit encryption, PKI certificate management, and Kubernetes integration. It addresses eliminating hardcoded credentials from application code and CI/CD pipelines by implementing short-lived, automatically rotated secrets.
Implementing Secret Scanning With Gitleaks
This skill covers implementing Gitleaks for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets in git repositories. It addresses configuring pre-commit hooks, CI/CD pipeline integration, custom rule authoring for organization-specific secrets, baseline management for existing repositories, and remediation workflows for exposed credentials.
Implementing Saml Sso With Okta
Implement SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On (SSO) using Okta as the Identity Provider (IdP). This skill covers end-to-end configuration of SAML authentication flows, attribute mapping, certificate management, a
Implementing Runtime Security With Tetragon
Implement eBPF-based runtime security observability and enforcement in Kubernetes clusters using Cilium Tetragon for kernel-level threat detection and policy enforcement.
Implementing Runtime Application Self Protection
Deploy Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) agents to detect and block attacks from within application runtime, covering OpenRASP integration, attack pattern detection, and security policy configuration for Java and Python web applications.
Implementing Rbac Hardening For Kubernetes
Harden Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control by implementing least-privilege policies, auditing role bindings, eliminating cluster-admin sprawl, and integrating external identity providers.
Implementing Ransomware Kill Switch Detection
Detects and exploits ransomware kill switch mechanisms including mutex-based execution guards, domain-based kill switches, and registry-based termination checks. Implements proactive mutex vaccination and kill switch domain monitoring to prevent ransomware from executing. Activates for requests involving ransomware kill switch analysis, mutex vaccination, WannaCry-style domain kill switches, or malware execution guard detection.
Implementing Ransomware Backup Strategy
Designs and implements a ransomware-resilient backup strategy following the 3-2-1-1-0 methodology (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite, 1 immutable/air-gapped, 0 errors on restore verification). Configures backup schedules aligned to RPO/RTO requirements, implements backup credential isolation to prevent ransomware from compromising backup infrastructure, and establishes automated restore testing. Activates for requests involving ransomware backup planning, backup resilience, air-gapped backup design, or backup recovery point objective configuration.
Implementing Purdue Model Network Segmentation
Implement network segmentation based on the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) model to separate industrial control system networks into hierarchical security zones from Level 0 physical process through Level 5 enterprise, enforcing strict traffic control between OT and IT domains.
Implementing Proofpoint Email Security Gateway
Deploy and configure Proofpoint Email Protection as a secure email gateway to detect and block phishing, malware, BEC, and spam before messages reach user inboxes.
Implementing Privileged Session Monitoring
Implements privileged session monitoring and recording using Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, focusing on CyberArk Privileged Session Manager (PSM) and open-source alternatives. Covers session recording configuration, keystroke logging, real-time monitoring, risk-based session analysis, and compliance audit trail generation. Activates for requests involving privileged session recording, PAM session monitoring, CyberArk PSM configuration, administrator activity monitoring, or compliance session auditing.
Implementing Privileged Access Management With Cyberark
Deploy CyberArk Privileged Access Management to discover, vault, rotate, and monitor privileged credentials across enterprise infrastructure. This skill covers vault architecture, session isolation, c
Implementing Policy As Code With Open Policy Agent
This skill covers implementing Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper for policy-as-code enforcement in Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines. It addresses writing Rego policies, deploying OPA Gatekeeper as a Kubernetes admission controller, testing policies in development, and integrating policy evaluation into deployment pipelines.
Implementing Pod Security Admission Controller
Implement Kubernetes Pod Security Admission to enforce baseline and restricted security profiles at namespace level using built-in admission controller.
Implementing Pci Dss Compliance Controls
PCI DSS 4.0.1 establishes 12 requirements across 6 control objectives for organizations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. With PCI DSS 3.2.1 retiring April 2024 and 51 new requirements
Implementing Patch Management For Ot Systems
This skill covers implementing a structured patch management program for OT/ICS environments where traditional IT patching approaches can cause process disruption or safety hazards. It addresses vendor compatibility testing, risk-based patch prioritization, staged deployment through test environments, maintenance window coordination, rollback procedures, and compensating controls when patches cannot be applied due to operational constraints or vendor restrictions.
Implementing Passwordless Auth With Microsoft Entra
Implements passwordless authentication using Microsoft Entra ID with FIDO2 security keys, Windows Hello for Business, Microsoft Authenticator passkeys, and certificate-based authentication to eliminate password-based attacks. Activates for requests involving passwordless deployment, FIDO2 passkey configuration, phishing-resistant MFA, or Microsoft Entra authentication method policies.
Implementing Ot Network Traffic Analysis With Nozomi
Deploy Nozomi Networks Guardian sensors for passive OT network traffic analysis to achieve comprehensive asset visibility, real-time threat detection, and vulnerability assessment across industrial control systems without disrupting operations, leveraging behavioral anomaly detection and protocol-aware monitoring.
Implementing Ot Incident Response Playbook
Develop and implement OT-specific incident response playbooks aligned with SANS PICERL framework, IEC 62443, and NIST SP 800-82 that address unique ICS challenges including safety-critical systems, limited downtime tolerance, and coordination between IT SOC, OT engineering, and plant operations teams.
Implementing Opa Gatekeeper For Policy Enforcement
Enforce Kubernetes admission policies using OPA Gatekeeper with ConstraintTemplates, Rego rules, and the Gatekeeper policy library.
Implementing Network Traffic Baselining
Build network traffic baselines from NetFlow/IPFIX data using Python pandas for statistical analysis, z-score anomaly detection, and hourly/daily traffic pattern profiling