- GOADActive DirectorySecurity Engineering
Running the Full GOAD Lab on Modal: Five Windows VMs in One Pay-Per-Use Sandbox
Karthik RajAugust 28, 202630 min readHow I adapted the full five-machine Game of Active Directory lab to Modal using QEMU TCG, persistent volumes, Ansible, noVNC, and an ephemeral OpenVPN gateway.

- Firewall SecurityCloud SecurityOpen Source
Firewall Configuration and Rule Review with Open-Source Claude Skills
Venkat PothamsettyJuly 29, 20268 min readHow we turned firewall configuration and rule review into an evidence-safe, repeatable workflow—and published the methodology as open-source Claude skills for security teams.

- Shadow AIAI SecurityMDR
Introducing the Shadow AI Problem
Venkat PothamsettyJuly 13, 202610 min readA technical explanation of why shadow AI is hard to govern, what evidence actually proves AI usage, and how customer investigations turn scattered telemetry into an actionable AI systems map.
