The Mission
Enterprise-grade security shouldn’t require enterprise budgets.
This site focuses on practical security for small teams — the kind that works when you’re responsible for everything, not just one slice of the stack.
The goal: make modern security achievable without excess tooling, process theater, or unrealistic assumptions.
Who This Is For
- Homelab builders who want to do security right from the start
- Security engineers on small or understaffed teams
- DevSecOps practitioners managing tool sprawl
- Anyone tired of “best practices” that assume unlimited budget and time
What You’ll Find Here
Every article emphasizes:
- Working detection queries you can copy and adapt
- Complete remediation paths, not just alerts
- Honest tool comparisons — including limitations
- Compliance mappings (NIST, SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
- Architectures built on open-source and low-cost tools
The Approach
Vendor-agnostic analysis Tools are evaluated based on what they do, how they fail, and how they fit into real environments.
No theory without practice Every recommendation is tested in a live environment.
Open-source first, always Cost is treated as a design constraint, not an afterthought.
No generic advice Specific tools, specific commands, specific outcomes.
About Oob Skulden™
Oob Skulden is a pseudonym.
I’ve spent over 20 years across networking, systems administration, database engineering, and security — from early enterprise environments to modern infrastructure — with the last 15+ years focused on security under real-world constraints: limited budgets, small teams, and competing priorities.
I run an extensive homelab where every technique published here is tested first.
All views and content here are my own. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of any employer, past or present.
Why This Site Exists
Most security guidance assumes unlimited budget, specialization, and time. Most homelabs and small teams don’t have that.
This site focuses on the overlooked parts of self-hosted infrastructure — where risk quietly accumulates — and documents how to address them with realistic detection and remediation strategies, tested in a real homelab before they’re published.
When something appears here, it has already been tested — often broken — and rebuilt. The articles reflect systems that actually run, including the mistakes made building them and the lessons learned fixing them.
If you’re responsible for security and everything else, you’re in the right place.
Behind the Site
This site is static by design. The work behind it is not.
Articles are backed by homelab experiments, working tools, detection logic, and open-source research. Infrastructure and tooling evolve continuously and are validated before anything is published.
Oob Skulden™ is a personal educational project. Content is based on publicly available frameworks, open-source tools, and documented best practices. This site does not provide professional consulting services.