Well, I am John Torakis, this guy on the left. And this Thinkpad is “Titan“, my beloved ThinkPad laptop.

I am by now a Security Engineer who is always looking for topics to dive into. This is quite difficult as all the cool things seem already done by others. Yet, I continue my searches in vain.

This blog was created as all of my friends got tired when we were meeting up and I urgently wanted to talk about how great is the idea of the “nmap Idle Scan”, or how well-built Python is, and why an XSS can ruin your site. Or even why PKI seems flawed to me as it is based on trust of untrustworthy entities and blah, capitalism, blah, privacy, blah… At a certain time they couldn’t handle it anymore. “Get a blog man” they yelled at me one after another. And that’s what I did. I got my blog.

Educationally I suck as I haven’t finished college/Bachelor Degree yet. And it is about Informatics. At least I’ve finished school.

Professionally I happen to work as a Security Analyst I am a Security Researcher and Engineer, which for me is “Woohoo“. I have more or less visited all technical parts of IT Security, I’ve looked at a lot of security logs for a living, I’ve done PenTesting on Web/Mobile/Native Applications, Networks and Red Teaming. I became a Security Infrastructure and Cloud guy for more than the last 3 years, doing DevSecOps, Cloud SIEMs and other modern and fancy stuff. All these left me with little time to be a cook, latin dancer, cinema aficionado, bass player, piano player. Sometimes I hope I get fired and get my college life back, but then I step to insanity again and ask for more logs Security Projects and Internal Penetration Tests.

You can find me here: john.torakis [at] gmail [dot] com (pgp key).  Drop me an email, I’ll happily read you among the Coursera, Instructables, Github, spam, and reply as soon as possible! Promise. My Twitter handle is @operatorequals but I don’t use Twitter.

Also here is my Github Page with repos and all. Enjoy.

Thanks for reading my blog. You are saving my friends.