about — denney

who i am

i'm denney — a security-focused student at wgu. i'm driven by curiosity, and i use tech to explore how systems — and people — break and rebuild.

my journey

started in help desk at morningside university, moved to support tech at premier bankcard, and now i'm an iam and enterprise security intern at mutual of omaha. i document security projects through hands-on labs, homelab work, and blogs.

values

curious, always
humble in progress
open to learning
hands-on > hypothetical
present, not perfect
systems thinker
failure is feedback

future ambitions

i'm especially drawn to the gritty, low-level side of security — the kind where you're ripping apart firmware, poking at microcontrollers, and figuring out how "smart" devices fail. IoT and hardware security feel like the wild west of infosec, and that's where i want to be. but before i dive headfirst into that world, i'm focused on building a strong foundation — identity, networking, systems, all the stuff that makes everything else click. you can't reverse engineer what you don't understand, so i'm learning from the ground up.

music

pressure is constant in security — panic is what breaks you. metal cuts through the noise and recenters me. it's chaos, sure, but that chaos keeps me calm, sharp, and locked in when it matters most.