Hello, Frankie Fans.

Despite the lack of blog posts, life has been anything but dull here in the now Spring-blustery Pacific Northwest. I’ve had a large number of irons in the fire lately and am itching to get a few of them written up here for display and hopefully enrichment by others.

For now, allow me to list a few things that have been going on that are on my list to develop into future posts:

• Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana (aka ELK) for security log ingestion and visualization
• Chef for infrastructure as code, repeatable environment testing, and standardized builds
• Standing up internal Rstats users group
• Attending Storytelling with Data workshop with Cole Nussbaumer
• Election to the SIRA board, serving as the Director of Membership
• Implementing a generational step forward with $DAYJOBs Application Risk Modelling with a Rstats-powered OpenFAIR model
• Vulnerability metrics, vulnerability metrics, and more vulnerability metrics (moving towards replacing CVSS as a scoring rubric)
• Shifting more date-driven security findings to a performance based approach
• First steps towards use of Apache Pig for ETL jobs
• Cloud-based deployment and automation
• Service Catalog definition and strategic roadmap planning
• …and more!

Lots of fun stuff. If there are topics that sound particularly interesting, please leave a comment so that I can prioritize those for write ups.