Automating Home Assistant Certs with Cert Warden
Automating Home Assistant Certs with Cert Warden, Let's Encrypt, and working around Home Assistants Security
LowAugust 24, 2025
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Security Research & Case Studies
Documenting my journey in cybersecurity research, vulnerability discoveries, and responsible disclosure practices.
Research Philosophy
Responsible Disclosure
Always following responsible disclosure practices to help vendors fix vulnerabilities before public disclosure.
Educational Focus
Sharing knowledge and methodologies to help others learn about security research and vulnerabilities through abuse and misuse and platforms and services.
Community Driven
Contributing to the security community through research, documentation, and collaboration. With an emphasis on fixing the greater good.
Research Areas
Email Security
Researching email security mechanisms, SPF/DKIM/DMARC implementations, and email gateway vulnerabilities.
SaaS Applications
Analyzing security implementations in Software-as-a-Service platforms and cloud-based applications.
Authentication Systems
Examining authentication mechanisms, single sign-on implementations, and identity management systems.
Published Research
View all →My first vulnerability – Mimecast Sender Address verification
I want to start and say this was something completely new to me, my only other previous security research experience was something a coworker noticed and I helped report. So what went wrong, to me the backstory is pretty interesting.
HighJanuary 10, 2020
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Case Studies
View all →Urllo Case Study: Ministry Brands
While helping Ministry Brands scale and modernize infrastructure across 25+ applications and 50+ white-label websites, I led efforts to eliminate SSL and redirect chaos by partnering with Urllo-transforming a fragile, manual process into a secure, automated system that business leaders noticed for its reliability.
MarketingMay 25, 2023
Client: Urllo • Industry: E-commerce
MarkMonitor Case Study: Ministry Brands Domain Portfolio Management
How Ministry Brands partnered with MarkMonitor to secure and streamline domain portfolio management across 50+ white-label websites, implementing enterprise-grade brand protection and automated domain security monitoring.
Security AssessmentMarch 22, 2021
Client: MarkMonitor • Industry: Technology Services