From Theory to Practice: Three Small Tools for Big Security Problems
In 2023 I wrote about my first steps in cybersecurity. It was a course summary: network topologies, Red Team vs Blue Team, PTES. It was useful, but it was missing something: building something.
So I built three tools. None of them tries to be huge. Each one answers a simple question that every team should be able to answer, and most can't.
The problem that doesn't show up in your code
We write code faster than ever, often with AI help. Two problems grow right alongside that speed.
The first is dependencies. A Python project has dozens of packages, and each one has its own packages inside. Nobody reads all of that. Nobody. A vulnerability can sit there for months, and you only find out when someone else finds it first.
The second is secrets. Ask an AI to put together a quick integration and there's a...
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