I’m Farid, a security leader based in Dallas. I’ve been at this since the early 2000s, started in GRC, moved through security engineering, and now lead across the whole spectrum: governance, vulnerability management, AI security, SecOps, training, and AppSec.

I’m also a software engineer. I built advancework.app and btpdevis.fr. Building things is what I keep coming back to.

I write here when I’ve got something to say that I can’t find on someone else’s blog.

OSCP, CISSP, CIPP/E, AWS Security Specialty. Happy to nerd out about any of them if you’re studying.