Hey, I'm Alex

I'm a Security Engineer working in London for Wise. I'm currently helping build Sigma – The shareable SIEM detection format, and north.sh – A new platform for SecOps teams. I'm also a huge geek for product & design.

If you're interested in reaching out, you can email me at hey@sinn.io.

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A simpler time – where learning how to write had a beautiful artificial reward.

Proxying Elasticsearch through Kibana, using Python

I've seen some need to permit access to Kibana, but not open up access to Elasticsearch's API (tcp/9200) directly. For this, and when you're using the elasticsearch-py Python Library, you can use the following transport in order to connect through your availab…

detection.studio

A new tool to help detection engineers get the most out of Sigma.

Faster Tests on “Tenancy for Laravel”

on Mutli-Database setups using Named SQLite Connections.

Sigma: Decoding the Future of Detection

I recently completed my first two BSides talks this year, and based on the fantastic questions and responses I got from the community, I decided to make the slides available here. Thanks to everyone who showed up and gave support!…

Introducing Sigma Filters

Sigma Filters are an extension of the Sigma detection format to allow you to compose common exclusions for your SIEM rules.

Using authorizeResource and UserPolicies in Laravel Resource Controllers

A very quick update to help someone else who comes across this issue. When using Laravel Resource Controller with a Policy targeting the User::class model, it's incredibly important to update $this->authorizeResource(...) to use the name of the policy attribu…