Brian Gaines

I served as a Navy Mass Communications Specialist before pursuing graduate research on the ethical and philosophical implications of digital surveillance. That path — military communications, then academic inquiry — now feeds into SOC analysis: translating dense technical material into incident reports and briefings a blue team can move on quickly.

I currently build and sometimes break security infrastructure in a homelab that runs the gamut from digital to physical security.

Current focus: SOC operations, SIEM architecture, threat detection, and the intersection of AI tooling with defensive security.