While still yet a simple website and blogspace hosted on my little slice of hardware heaven in France, it brings me back to when I was but a young Security Engineer exiting from the military and stepping into the big wide world. One of the first projects I took under my belt was to create a scheduler that would be used to modulate when and how vulnerability scans would kick off against the corporate infrastructure under our expansive dominion as the Security Operations and Engineering Group - SEOG for short. My mentor SL was an older man of Hungarian origin with a thick accent, and a not so thick head of hair, directing me on proper functional systems programming as we progressed through this horrific state machine I would personally come to label my own personal "Torment Nexus."
The beauty of having well-managed and properly scheduled scans across a network is that we were then able to attest to the fact that our own infrastructure was in fact not causing issues when incidents arose and during their future decomposition during an incident analysis. The idea that time alone would grant us such a valid and provable cover to better allocate efforts to other resources really was a starting point in my future endeavours in threat detection, risk management, and root cause analysis.
Time. A clock we'll say, posted on the index of this site. Forever moving forward on this domain, and soon to be cemented into the git history of the code supporting it. The hope, the goal, is that at every elapsed interval a new feature, post, or other modification has been made to it. In the memory of a friend and a mentor that pushed me to look past the noise, to take my time, and find solice in the beauty of life.