Security Engineer

Trenton Goss

Detection engineering, defensive deception, and pragmatic security governance for teams that need useful security outcomes without unnecessary complexity.

Security Focus

From visibility to resilience, security that works.

I build robust security programs that help businesses reduce risk, improve visibility, and respond faster.

Detection Engineering

Turning threat behavior into high-fidelity queries, useful alerts, and defender-ready workflows.

Defensive Deception

Using realistic artifacts and honeynet strategy to expose adversary movement earlier.

Vulnerability Management

Identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities to reduce the attack surface.

Security Governance

Pragmatic controls, risk conversations, and process improvements that survive real operations.

Selected Work

Projects built for defenders and real people.

A mix of security tooling, threat intelligence concepts, deception research, and practical education resources.

Deception Strategy

Deep Waters

Defensive deception and honeynet strategy using realistic enterprise artifacts to improve attacker detection.

Resources
KQL Detection

One Query to Rule Them All

GitHub repository built for defenders to assist with threat detection or interesting items to look out for in their environment.

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AI Intelligence

A.T.O.M.

An AI agent that assists security teams with actionable threat, vulnerability, and attack intelligence.

Education Safety

Guarding their Hearts, Minds, and Screens

A presentation on real world threats and how to protect your children in the digital age.

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Experience

Career, rendered as a detection log.

Roles spanning IT support, systems administration, endpoint security, analysis, and engineering.

career.log 7 roles · 2 promotions

2024 → now

Security Engineer

promoted

Quadax

Security Analyst

2023 → 2024

IT Security Analyst

CBIZ

2022 → 2023

Endpoint Security Analyst

Parker Hannifin

2020 → 2022

System Administrator

promoted

Single Point Technologies

Desktop Support Specialist

2019 → 2020

IT Support Specialist

Autumn Property Management

Contact

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