briangineering.com

What It Is

Briangineering is the personal technical brand and portfolio site of Brian D'Hurieux, a seasoned cybersecurity developer and network forensics analyst. Brian has more than 15 years of development experience and an active TS/SCI clearance. He currently serves as a cybersecurity lead at AT&T and as a cyber warfare operator in the Air National Guard. The site showcases hands-on projects that deeply combine full-stack development with offensive and defensive cyber operations, including enterprise-grade security awareness training platforms and traffic forensics tools.

Core Dimension Analysis

• Protection Focus: Emphasizes protection against “human risk” through large-scale Smishing phishing simulation training, as well as detection of “network traffic threats” through PCAP analysis and threat hunting.
• Deployment Model: Most projects are full-stack web applications hosted in the Azure cloud. The open-source tool FireShark uses a FastAPI + frontend architecture and supports local deployment.
• Management and Alerting: Strong data visualization and monitoring capabilities. He has built real-time ELK dashboards for CISO teams, providing project-level insights and tracking user risk trends.
• Integration Capabilities: Deep integration with mainstream security ecosystems, including Zeek log parsing, Arkime deep packet inspection, telecom API integrations, and SOAR automation scripts.

Pricing

The site is a personal technical showcase and does not offer a commercial SaaS product. FireShark is a free and open-source tool, while the AT&T internal projects and smart city simulator are not available for external sale.

Pros and Cons

Pros: An extremely rare hybrid expert in both full-stack development and network forensics; holds strong credentials such as TS/SCI and GNFA; proven at large operational scale, with single phishing exercises reaching 100,000–200,000+ messages; modern technology stack well aligned with enterprise needs.
Cons: Core projects are internal and closed-source, so they cannot be directly reused; FireShark is still at an early stage and currently only supports SYN scan detection; as a personal project, it lacks the technical support and SLA guarantees of a commercial product.

Who It’s For

Large-enterprise CISOs looking for architectural references for security awareness training, frontline security analysts needing a lightweight PCAP analysis tool, and security practitioners interested in how development skills can be applied to network forensics.

Access from China

Unknown. Personal blog-style sites are usually directly accessible, but availability depends on the specific hosting provider and has not been tested.