Mike Vedete

A cybersecurity professional who enjoys breaking things, taking them apart, and understanding how they work—sometimes more successfully than others. I currently work on the offensive side of things as an internal penetration tester. I have extensive experience leading a Security Operations Center (SOC), performing incident response, and leading collaborative purple team assessments: both as a blue teamer building detections and fine-tuning alerts, and performing complex attacks against Active Directory and Azure environments. I write malware sometimes and analyze it on occasion. I'm not great at either but I learn best by doing. I build tools when existing ones don't scratch the itch quite right, and I'll be sharing some of those projects here soon. This site is where I blog about my learning journey and showcase tools I've built to deepen my understanding of security concepts. If I can't explain it or build it, I don't really understand it.