whoami

I’m a cybersecurity professional specializing in threat detection, SIEM operations, and security strategy.

For over a decade, I’ve helped journalists strengthen their digital security in some of the most challenging reporting environments in the world. Drawing on my experience as a foreign journalist and correspondent, I began delivering cybersecurity workshops to journalists in Southeast Asia, which evolved into tailored one-on-one consulting. My work combines deep technical knowledge with real-world, situationally aware guidance.

At a managed security services provider in Europe, I led SIEM and security operations platform management — integrating and normalizing new log sources, developing and tuning threat detections, onboarding clients, managing upgrades and migrations, and refining workflows in partnership with engineers, SOC analysts, managers and executives. My work has supported compliance needs while bridging technical detail with business priorities.

Before cybersecurity, I was a journalist, starting in Philadelphia’s alt-weeklies and later in Phnom Penh’s competitive two-paper English-language press. I served as president of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia, where I organized my first cybersecurity workshops for reporters. My freelance work took me across Southeast Asia, China, West Africa, and Western Europe, filing for outlets such as Agence France-Presse, Voice of America, ABC Australia, and Switzerland’s SRF.

In 2023–24, I was an affiliate of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, where I focused on graduate-level courses in cybersecurity, privacy, policy, and crisis management. I still trip out that I took two semesters of classes with Bruce Schneier. Through cross-registration at MIT, I also conducted a full security assessment for a New England municipality, and under Belfer Center programming, I traced the shared intellectual heritage of intelligence analysis and journalism. This all builds on my work combining investigative instincts, analytical rigor, technical expertise, and strategic insight to help individuals and organizations strengthen their security posture.

Apart from work, I once co-founded a short-lived skateboard magazine that was at least once a trivial footnote. I enjoy cooking working people’s food from around the world, and I maintain a well-documented rapport with cats. I also volunteer developing digital security practices for organizations supporting vulnerable populations.

I've let my public digital footprint atrophy over the years, but you can catch me at the either or both of the wildly different social links below.