Low-level guides, production post-mortems, and architectural blueprints for the curious systems engineer.
Join the Austin Cyber Alliance tonight at ACC Rio Grande Campus for an interactive 3D technical briefing on the history of Capture The Flag competitions, adversary emulation doctrine, and an introduction to open-source cyber ranges, followed by planning for the Fall 2026 Austin CTF.
Live adversarial cyber wargames, Red vs. Blue team simulation, AI model jailbreaking and defense auditing, binary exploitation, and kernel telemetry challenges hosted in the Silicon Hills of Austin, TX in association with the Austin Cyber Alliance.
Join the Austin Cyber Alliance tonight, Sep 8, 2026 (6:00-8:00 PM CDT) at Austin Community College Rio Grande Campus for an interactive 3D technical briefing on the history of CTF wargames, followed by intel on the upcoming Fall 2026 CTF.
From DEF CON 4's ethernet cables to modern adversary emulation: the evolution of Capture The Flag, offensive/defensive tradecraft, and the definitive guide to open-source CTF platforms.
A comprehensive, battle-tested operational checklist for hardening production Linux servers against modern automated adversary campaigns.
Visualizing Nmap XML scans into interactive force-directed topologies, GeoIP ballistic threat maps, and automated security diffs with Tekromancy's NastyMap.
Designing an ultra-low-latency encrypted multi-region mesh network using Bird, WireGuard, and Linux network namespaces.
Architecture and optimization techniques for deploying open-weight models locally with continuous batching, AWQ quantization, and GPU memory tuning.
Replacing legacy kube-proxy with Cilium eBPF for wire-speed packet filtering, Layer 7 network policies, and transparent mutual TLS.
How extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) transforms observability, security, and networking directly in the Linux kernel without risky kernel modules.
Bootstrapping instant KinD and K3s clusters pre-loaded with ArgoCD, OpenBao, Harbor, and automated mkcert TLS via DeployCoop's vigilant-octo-waffle.
Building, provisioning, initializing, and orchestrating production-grade Kubernetes clusters PDQ with Kubash, QEMU/KVM, Packer, and Kubeadm.
