Adversary emulation @scythe_io. Public Speaker. USMC vet. Writing about threat intel, detection engineering, and what actually works. Thoughts are my own.
🦃 The November feast is served at Neon Temple!
Project demos, Fediverse exploration, and Hack The Box are on the menu this month. Bring your curiosity and pull up a seat at the Temple.
📍 Tampa, FL
🔗 https://t.co/LHVthBrcgV
#NeonTemple#InfoSec#CyberSecurity#HackTheBox
DOE just dropped its Fall 2026 SBIR/STTR Phase 1 topics, with more than $200M in funding available to small businesses building in energy + national security. Here's a look at the 25 topics:
Topic 1: Advanced technologies for domestic critical mineral extraction, midstream processing, and recycling: small-market minerals like vanadium, hafnium, zirconium. Each proposal must pair a real feedstock provider with a processor
Topic 2: Innovations in manufacturing scale-up for energy applications: production bottlenecks, modular/retrofit platforms, smart manufacturing tools
Topic 3: State-of-the-art tech for industrial competitiveness: energy-intensive industries, cross-sector processes, data center and large load integration
Topic 4: Next-generation building technologies: dual-fuel HVAC, SI/ML controls
Topic 5: Cutting edge generation and power management technologies: hydro, marine, wind and PV recycling, solar thermal, space PV, interconnection, permitting
Topic 6: Advanced transportation and fuels production: fuels from alternative feedstocks, MW-scale fuel cells for data centers, heavy-rare-earth-free motors, off-road and mining powertrains
Topic 7: Battery technologies for dual-use applications: cell-level demos w/ commercial markets and defense uses like UAS, UUV, soldier-carried power
Topic 8: Advanced cybersecurity, resilience, and energy system risk mitigation technologies: OT/ICS security, supply chain assurance, recovery tools
Topic 9: Innovative technologies for hydrocarbons and geothermal energy: modernizing coal mines and plants, oil and gas recovery, produced water sensors, geothermal targeting and storage
Topic 10: Reactor concepts: HTGR/MSR components, liquid metal, sCO2, digital twins, construction cost reduction
Topic 11: Fuel cycle R&D: domestic fuel supply chain, TRISO and advanced fuels, used fuel recovery, materials accounting
Topic 12: Nuclear energy enabling tech: reactor sensors, advanced materials, modeling tools, post-irradiation exam
Topic 13: Advanced technologies for used nuclear fuel and high-level waste disposition: standardized waste packages, dry storage modeling, licensing pathways for DOE’s nuclear lifecycle campuses
Topic 14: Grid innovations to strengthen the electric system's capacity: grid cyber, grid-enhancing tech, microgrids, stationary storage, large load interconnection
Topic 15: Commercializing ASCR/ECP-funded HPC software
Topic 16: Cybersecurity for scientific high-performance computing
Topic 17: Novel instrumentation for X-ray and neutron facilities: permanent magnet accelerator elements, in-situ optics cleaning, neutron mirrors and detectors
Topic 18: Data, synthesis, and characterization strategies for SI-driven materials and molecular systems discovery: ML-guided membranes for critical mineral/REE separation, SI data platforms
Topic 19: Enabling technologies for bioengineering and quantum science-based sensors: field-deployable quantum sensing, quantum bioimaging, Super Intelligence for bioenergy crop engineering, big biological data
Topic 20: Fusion fuel cycle and enabling technologies: tritium handling, fueling, exhaust processing, detritiation
Topic 21: Advanced particle and radiation detectors: ultra-radiopure materials, high-rate detectors, vibration-free cryogenics
Topic 22: High-performance electronics and data acquisition systems
Topic 23: Accelerator science and tech: superconducting magnets, RF power, sources and lasers, diagnostics
Topic 24: Proliferation detection: entangled-photon remote sensing, hyperspectral imagery over water to support monitoring of nuclear-powered ships, radiation detection, radiological source replacement
Topic 25: Nuclear detonation detection: field data acquisition, calibration tools, rad-hard microcircuits
Pitches due Dec. 16.
Trey Bilbrey wants leadership in the room for every purple team engagement - once executives watch a real gap play out in front of them, security turns into something they want to fix. ⚙️
⬇️ Watch now: https://t.co/8QHdr0zGdX
#cybersecurity#purpleteam#blueteam#redteam
Small businesses hold massive amounts of sensitive data, yet many lack basic security protocols. One significant breach is often enough to end a local company for good.
Check out this episode of the Phillip Wylie Show on YouTube, Apple, or Spotify.
#CyberSecurity#SmallBusiness
For those following all the PHP chaos over the last few days, here is a great breakdown of it all. Thanks for the rec @HackingLZ ! https://t.co/OhBKjraloC
@InfoSec_World is kicking off today! I’ll be around chatting it up with everyone and teaching a workshop on Thursday about Purple Teaming. See y’all there 🫡
@TCraf7 was featured in episode 100, but so much has happend with Trey since that episode. We sat down this week to discuss all he has done and what's new. His episode drops on October 27. Check out episode 100 in the comments.
October has entered the Temple. 🕯️💻
Tonight, we’re kicking off the month with Talk Roulette then next week, we’re diving back into the grid for Hack The Box & Training Night.
Check the graphic for the details and RSVP.
See you at the Temple. 👻 https://t.co/LHVthBrcgV
If you are not following @TCraf7, you should. He frequently speaks at conferences and leads workshops. He runs an educational nonprofit in the Tampa area. He was also a guest on my podcast, and we are planning a new episode soon. Here is his episode: https://t.co/V9IL0KeUQW