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17 Jun 20265 min read

From Firewalls to Foundation Models: Why I'm Betting on AI Engineering

I didn't start in AI. I started in design. Over eight years of brand identity, print work, UI/UX — and now I'm betting on AI engineering. Here's why.

[AI Engineering][Cybersecurity][Nigeria][Career]
10 Mar 20251 min read

Building RBAC That Actually Holds Under Attack

Most RBAC implementations look correct until someone tests them adversarially. Here's what breaks, why it breaks, and how to build role-based access control that holds up when someone is actively trying to subvert it.

[Security][Go][Engineering]
22 Jan 20251 min read

SIEM Tuning for Small Teams: Cutting the Noise

A SIEM that fires a thousand alerts a day trains your team to ignore them. Here's how to tune signal-to-noise ratio without a dedicated SOC analyst — practical approaches from production Splunk deployments.

[Security][Ops][SIEM]
8 Nov 20241 min read

CI/CD Security Gates: What Most Teams Skip

Shifting security left sounds good in theory. In practice, most teams bolt on a SAST scan at the end and call it DevSecOps. Here's what the pipeline actually needs to block real threats at build time.

[DevSecOps][CI/CD][Engineering]
14 Sept 20241 min read

Threat Intelligence for African SMEs — A Different Problem

Global threat intelligence feeds are built for global threat models. Nigerian SMEs face a different attack surface — advance fee variants, mobile money fraud, and a regulatory landscape that most Western security tooling has never heard of.

[Security][Africa][Strategy]