About
I enjoy sharing what I learn with others. As an added bonus, I always seem able to communicate more effectively when I have a clear enough understanding to help someone else learn too. The site's name comes from a play on making esoteric topics less esoteric, or de-esoteric. Since I’m Dennis the III, I put a 3 in there too.
I started in the information security industry in 2013 when kind friends and mentors gave me a chance. Never wanting to let them down, I was working on a B.A in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies and found my love for language translated really well (you see what I did there...) into the security space. I'm happy to report the security field was a perfect match.
My roles have included analysis, incident response, penetration testing, architecture and currently work as an information security officer with a special love for application security. This gives me the privilege of both rolling up the proverbial sleeves to find elusive solutions and managing a small team of individual contributors at an exciting organization.
I use this site for posting projects, ideas, things that I think are relevant, etc. I also am a firm believer that becoming proficient in non-security topics also make me a better security professional, so I may write about non-security items from time to time as well.
My views are my own and I do not represent any of my employers, past or present!
