Alfredo “Red” Pelaez
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Writing

Public-facing writing on adversary emulation, detection validation, cyber experimentation, and the design of defensible systems.

The focus is practical: how should cyber teams measure whether defensive capability is actually working?

Articles are added as experiments, research, and technical projects mature into reusable lessons.

Silent Tank Overfill: When a Single Register Write Changes Physical Reality

A single Modbus register change can silently alter physical system behavior, exposing gaps in how detection programs measure effectiveness.

Detection Validation Is Not Just Alerting

Why useful detection engineering requires more than writing rules

Alfredo “Red” Pelaez
Adversary Emulation & Detection Validation
Detection Engineering • Cyber Experimentation