TRUST NOTHING.
VERIFY EVERYTHING.
The system has blind spots.
I make them visible.
I'm marjean. Cybersecurity practitioner, builder, and the human behind The Digital Ruins. Fifteen-plus years inside enterprise systems. I take messy operations and make the process work.
35.08° N 120.42° W · FICTIONAL
Follow the risk.
Make the evidence usable.
A fictional enterprise.
A practical place to show my work.
AQT gives my risk, audit, identity, and human-factors projects a shared business context. I use it to connect the problem to the control, the person responsible, and the evidence a reviewer would need.
Enterprise Risk Register
11 simulated risks, organized for prioritization, treatment decisions, and executive review.
Read case studyAudit & Assessment Playbook
An assessment method and 13-risk playbook connecting technical observations to accountable recommendations.
Read case studyAccess Governance
18 findings translated into control themes, evidence needs, and a remediation tracker.
Read case studyMeridian Shield Assurance
A security-awareness program, policy package, monitoring plan, and communication layer for an AQT subsidiary.
Read case studyWhen Accuracy Is Not Fair
A lending case study examining privacy, proxy risk, model bias, and accountable decisions.
Read case studyProtecting Health Data
A concise safeguard and evidence assessment for a simulated health-data environment.
Read case studyThe decisions between the alerts.
MFA Ghost, Shiny Trust Breach, and Trust Betrayal connect incident details to governance decisions. The developing scenarios now have concise briefs, defined evidence needs, and an honest next step.
Cybersecurity Operations Playbook
My working OneNote reference brings together technical notes, access-control concepts, incident analysis, and risk material. I’m shaping selected sections into focused AQT case studies.
Recovered from the ruins.
Built to question systems.
Designed to make them better.
Corporate experience.
Independent mind.
marjean mayo-baker
EDUCATION B.S. Cybersecurity, summa cum laude · M.S. Cybersecurity in progress
COMMUNITY WiCyS SNHU Online co-founder & incoming president
OFF THE GRID RPG worlds, crochet builds, and a stubborn love of making things work.
The right access. The right reason.
Entra ID · OIM · MFA · Conditional Access · Joiner / Mover / Leaver · YubiKey
Test the control. See the change.
Every switch has a consequence.
This one's safe to explore.
A fictional relay holds sensitive data. Change its safeguards and watch the modeled exposure shift.
Too much room to move.
Limit privileges and isolate the relay to reduce the paths an intruder can take.
sys Connection established.
nyx Welcome to the ruins, operator.
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