Kirk Abbott
Cloud, AI, and security — research, projects, and notes.
How 14 CVEs finally forced our Next.js upgrade (and what the migration actually looked like)
We deferred the Next.js 14 to 15 upgrade for over a year. Then a security audit counted 14 high-severity CVEs sitting in our production next package. Every code change, every build-pipeline gotcha, and the lessons that came out of it.
MITRE ATT&CK 3D Explorer
An interactive 3D graph of MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise — techniques, threat groups, and malware with multi-dimensional filtering and search.
Stratbeacon
A SaaS trading signals platform for retail traders. Live at stratbeacon.com — real users, real payments, my own infrastructure.
About
U.S. Air Force cyber defense operator with a web and cloud development background — working on cloud security, architecture, and AI/ML.
Started in web development, moved into cyber defense, now pointing at the place where cloud architecture, security, and AI/ML overlap.
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