Investigate a security incident in Google Cloud — establishing what audit logging exists before trusting a gap, reconstructing activity from Cloud Audit Logs, triaging service-account and OAuth abuse, following Security Command Center findings, and scoping IAM and resource changes. Use when responding to a suspected…
Investigate security incidents in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID (Azure AD) -- search the Unified Audit Log, correlate sign-in and audit events, trace illicit OAuth consent grants, analyze mailbox rule manipulation, and contain compromised identities. Use when responding to a BEC incident, investigating Entra ID…
Investigate a compromised or suspicious Windows host from on-disk artifacts -- triage collection, evidence of execution (Prefetch, Amcache, Shimcache, SRUM, UserAssist, BAM), the event-log workhorses by ID (Security 4624/4688/4720/7045/1102, Sysmon, PowerShell 4104, RDP, WMI), persistence hunting across every…
Prioritize and drive remediation of a vulnerability backlog by real risk, not raw CVSS — combining severity with exploitation signals (EPSS, CISA KEV), asset exposure and business context, using SSVC-style decisions, distinguishing reachable from merely present, and tracking remediation and exceptions. Use when…
Produce cyber threat intelligence by pivoting on indicators to find related infrastructure, tracking actors and campaigns, enriching and contextualizing IOCs, applying attribution discipline and analytic confidence, and packaging finished intel products tied to a consumer's decision. Covers the intelligence lifecycle…
Run digital forensics and incident response — triage, evidence acquisition with chain of custody, host and cloud artifact analysis, timeline reconstruction, scoping, containment, eradication, and postmortem. Use during a suspected compromise, when analyzing a disk or memory image, reconstructing an attacker timeline…
Work a security alert queue to a defensible disposition — separating true positives from false positives and benign true positives, reasoning about base rates before escalating, ordering enrichment by cheapest discriminator, time-boxing, and documenting negative results so a closed alert is evidence rather than a…
Author and maintain Sigma detection rules — structure, logsource taxonomy, detection logic with modifiers, false-positive filtering, backend conversion with pySigma, and offline validation with Hayabusa or Chainsaw. Use when translating threat intel into vendor-agnostic detection logic, building a detection-as-code…
Author durable YARA detection rules — meta/strings/condition anatomy, string types and modifiers, structural conditions with file magic and offsets, the PE/ELF/math/hash modules, specificity-vs-durability tuning, atom-aware performance, memory and process scanning, and YARA-X. Use when writing a YARA rule, creating a…
Attacker tradecraft with the judgment, not just the commands. 40 offensive security skills for red teams and pentesters: web/API/auth exploitation (JWT, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, XXE, SSRF, deserialization, GraphQL, gRPC), Active Directory and Entra ID, AD CS ESC1-16, Kerberos delegation, Linux/Windows privilege escalation…
Enumerate and abuse Active Directory Certificate Services with Certipy and Certify — the ESC1 through ESC16 escalation paths, vulnerable template and CA configurations, NTLM relay to web enrollment, certificate-based authentication and persistence, and the strong-mapping changes that gate several of them. Use when a…
Skills packaging the Gauntlet Loop — build → blind-critic → revise → repeat against a hard bar — for coding, writing, design, data, research, prompt evaluation, detection engineering, and authorized security testing.
Domain-agnostic method for producing top-tier work with the Gauntlet Loop — split → build → blind-critic → repeat — against a hard "bar" the agent cannot argue its way around. A lead splits a goal into independently gradeable parts; each part gets a specialist builder plus a ruthless blind critic (clean context) who…
Apply the Gauntlet Loop to security vulnerability hunting — a hunter (builder) proposes candidate vulnerabilities and a blind validator (critic) inspects the real artifact and MUST build a working non-destructive PoC before anything is confirmed. The bar is exploitability + CWE mapping + real vulnerability-class…