Cybersecurity Engineering | Security Research | Pentesting | Security Tool Development
Founder and GitHub Organization Owner of Averlyth.
I focus on cybersecurity engineering, offensive and defensive security, penetration testing, network security, and the development of security-oriented software and research platforms.
My work emphasizes reproducibility, technical evidence, secure engineering practices, controlled experimentation, and the development of security tooling for authorized environments.
I founded Averlyth, an independent cybersecurity engineering organization focused on security research, trustworthy security tooling, and the development of the Obscuryx Security Platform.
Averlyth provides the organizational and engineering structure for projects that reach the required level of technical maturity, documentation, security controls, and repository governance.
Projects transferred from my personal namespace preserve their original Git history, authorship, signed commits, tags, releases, and technical provenance while Averlyth becomes their canonical organizational owner and maintainer.
Obscuryx Security Platform is the cybersecurity engineering ecosystem developed under Averlyth.
Its components are intended to address specialized security functions including:
- network reconnaissance;
- attack-surface analysis;
- security telemetry;
- detection and investigation;
- deception technologies;
- security drift analysis;
- evidence collection and technical validation.
CicadaPort is a specialized TCP reconnaissance platform designed for authorized security assessments.
Its architecture separates responsibilities across three primary technologies:
- Python — orchestration, CLI/TUI, sessions, reporting, configuration, and integration;
- Rust — specialized TCP scanning engine;
- Go — service and banner evidence collection.
The project includes reproducible builds, automated testing, supply-chain controls, dependency auditing, signed artifacts, provenance information, SBOM generation, and governed release processes.
CicadaPort is currently maintained by Averlyth as part of the Obscuryx Security Platform.
Repository: github.com/Averlyth/port-scanner
The following projects remain under my personal development environment while their architecture, technical state, and governance are reviewed before any potential migration to Averlyth.
Security engineering platform focused on detecting insecure infrastructure changes, attack-surface modifications, and security drift.
Status: personal project pending organizational review.
Cybersecurity research platform focused on attack capture, adversary telemetry, behavioral observation, and security analysis through deception technologies.
Status: personal project pending organizational review.
Curated collection of cybersecurity tools, technical references, notes, and learning resources used for research and practical training.
My principal areas of technical interest include:
- Cybersecurity Engineering
- Penetration Testing
- Network Security
- Security Research
- Offensive Security
- Defensive Security
- Security Tool Development
- Detection Engineering
- Attack-Surface Analysis
- Security Automation
- Linux Security
- Software Supply-Chain Security
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- Bash
- Linux
- Kali Linux
- Git
- GitHub
- Docker
- Networking
- CI/CD
Experience with security tooling and methodologies involving:
- Nmap
- Burp Suite
- Metasploit
- ffuf
- dirb
- Hydra
- network reconnaissance;
- web application testing;
- vulnerability assessment;
- controlled attack simulation;
- security research environments.
My training includes hands-on work across more than 600 laboratory machines and security challenges using platforms and environments such as:
- TryHackMe
- Hack The Box
- VulnHub
The work includes enumeration, network analysis, web security, privilege escalation, exploitation laboratories, defensive analysis, and security tooling development.
Projects developed or maintained under my work follow several core principles:
- security testing only within authorized scope;
- reproducible and traceable technical results;
- preservation of historical authorship and provenance;
- signed and reviewable changes;
- explicit technical contracts and interfaces;
- automated testing and validation;
- secure defaults;
- dependency and supply-chain controls;
- documented engineering decisions;
- separation between experimental, candidate, and released functionality.
Averlyth Cybersecurity Engineering · Security Research · Security Tooling
Founder and GitHub Organization Owner: @DrewSC13
Organization: github.com/Averlyth