Applied Research
Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG) is the method of choice for increasing the output accuracy of Natural Language Processing(NLP), generation-based models. I’m not claiming that this will eliminate your generative model’s chances to hallucinate (as some do), but it does push the the model to retrieve relevant documents or pieces of information from your own corpus, based…
Though most Large Language Models(LLM) feature strong out-of-the-box capabilities with a wide spectrum of knowledge, they often fall short when asked to perform in-depth tasks within a specific subject matter — making them less that useful within specialized domains, like cyber security. There are two basic options to remedy this shortcoming while mitigating sacrifice of…
In the previous article (The Big Data SIEM: Ingestion Layer with Azure) we establish a baseline of principles with which to ingest data at the multiple petabyte per day scale. Though many aspects align to lessons learned in review of Azure’s Well Architected Framework(WAF), we include our recommendations for API client calls, data transformations, team…
Back in June 2024, I wrote a post about a homelab project I had started, which aimed to characterize the dark web. The project was ultimately a success, achieving an average of ~75k .onion v3 resources located (verified & enriched) per 24 hours, over a 6 day “final” trial period. This was roughly 10x the…
You’ve just gotten into the office on a Monday and your CISO has pulled you into a meeting. The board has decided you’re moving your SIEM off of Splunk (Elastic, Rapid7, etc.) to save money…
A homelab project in Dark Web content discovery, behavioral traffic analysis, and database development.
Recommendations and review of Pop!_OS (by System76) after 4 years of use as my daily driver.
An introduction and walk-through of one of the most commonly overlooked and little known Onion Network tools.
A case for virtual cards: Privacy & security considerations for the e-commerce participant.
Adding a powerful vulnerability scanning tool to your Nmap Scripting Engines(NSE), it’s use-case and demonstration.