Housekeeping

In today’s world we are inundated with low-quality writing. Shortcuts, hype, lies, and content farms. My intent is for Enemy Dispatch to be a high-signal publication you can trust. As such, I proactively disclose my use of LLMs. Articles that were created with AI assistance have a note in the footer indicating the AI Influence Level for that content. AIL v1.0 is a simple way to disclose the use of AI. Unless stated elsewhere, it’s safe to assume that I have used AI primarily to: ...

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“Growth happens when curiosity meets discipline.” I’m Preston Fitzgerald, a cybersecurity subject-matter expert building lab environments for training, research, and network monitoring. Sometimes I go by the alias gatesec online. Day job: I support students who are tackling tricky cybersecurity training. I help reframe complicated technical concepts to meet folks at their current level. I test and troubleshoot lab environments and I identify ways to improve training exercises. Side quests: I am configuring a prosumer network to include a live-fire SOC-in-a-box with enterprise sensibilities and blogging the journey right here while I wrap up my master’s degree in Information Security Engineering. ...