Secure Ideas
2018-05 -> Current
If you don't know I work at Secure Ideas, also known in the Open Source community as Professionaly Evil, and one of the things we do there is write blog posts. So I am going to link to my general author page, and then list the individual articles that I have written about as well.
author page: https://www.secureideas.com/blog/author/alex-rodriguez
- Automating Red Team Homelabs: Part 1 – Kali Automation: https://blog.secureideas.com/2018/09/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-1-kali-automation.html
- Automating Red Team Homelabs: Part 2 – Build, Pentest, Destroy, and Repeat: https://blog.secureideas.com/2019/05/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-2-build-pentest-destroy-and-repeat.html
YouTube
Side note: I actually edit most of my videos along with creating the content.
Classes on behalf of work
Taught
- 2021 Profesionally Evil Container SECurity (PECSEC) - Co-Teacher
- 2021-02 BSides Huntsville (HSV) - Teacher for consolidated version of Professionally Evil Network Testing (PENT); https://x.com/secureideas/status/1357705684805165060
- 2020-03 BSides Triad - Co-Teacher for consolidated version of Professionally Evil Application Security (PEAS); https://x.com/secureideas/status/1236029112571105280
Teacher Assistant
- 2019-06 BSides Asheville - Adventuring in Active Directory; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-asheville-2019-training-adventuring-in-active-directory-tickets-60624013055 (WBM - search for Secure Ideas in the source of the page)
- 2019-05 Carolina Con 2019 - Professionally Evil Container Hackery; not listed but link: https://carolinacon.org/archive/cc2019/events.html (wbm)
- 2019-03 Secure Ideas Spring Break - PENT; not listed but link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/professionally-evil-spring-break-2019-tickets-52154652971 (WBM)
Conferences representing work
Not listed:
- 2020 - BSidesCLT - RedOps Automated Building Blocks (ABBs) class
I only played a supporting role of making sure the demo worked in this next video:
Webcasts
Not on YouTube
- 2019-09-18: The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire - Exploring New C2 Frameworks to Succeed PowerShell Empire
Professionally Evil Lunch & Learn (PELL)
Current Bio:
Alex Rodriguez is a security consultant with experience in Linux systems administration, Infrastructure as Code development, container platforms, automation development, and various CI/CD platforms. In his roles at Secure Ideas, he is one of the main admins of their production systems and all things automation. He utilizes Amazon Web Services, terraform, packer, vagrant, ansible, and also gets to work with clients on improving their infrastructure through penetration tests. Besides client work and system administration, he loves giving workshops and presenting on his various projects to the community. When he is not working, he is listening to as many podcasts as he can while continually improving in security, blogging, and coding.
Extra Info
Some of my work from 2018 till 2024 includes working with around (or over) 100 clients, close to 700 days spent on consulting, and over 150 engagements of various types: external and internal network tests, Infrastructure as Code review, web applications, kubernetes, mobile, API, architecture reviews, and special projects or special reviews. That is on top of all the infrastructure improvements I've made at Secure Ideas.
Old Bio:
Alex Rodriguez is a consultant who is passionate about Linux, systems automation, and networking. He is part of several security groups in the Charlotte area that have been paramount to his experiences in security. He loves new challenges, security conferences, and helping out the community and its members in any way that he can.