A curated collection of security-flavored Proof of Concepts exploring different security automation experiments, crafted by John Menerick — engineer, researcher, and breaker of things (on purpose).
⚠ Disclaimer: These PoCs are not production-ready — they’re here to demonstrate ideas, not to be deployed as-is.
- Vault + YubiKey integration for creative authentication flows.
- PKI automation with Terraform and Vault.
- JWT, OTP, and SSH certificate experiments.
- Infrastructure as Code for ephemeral, disposable labs.
- Tamper evident compute.
- Multi-party compute.
These projects are snapshots of “Can this be done?” moments — designed to break, teach, and inspire.
They’re proof that automation can be equal parts useful and ridiculous.
- Read the code.
- Steal the patterns you like.
- Rewrite them properly for production.
John Menerick is a seasoned security professional with expertise in detection engineering, engineering, and building clever (sometimes chaotic) security prototypes.
This repo is a showcase of creative problem solving, technical range, and a bit of professional mischief.
Use at your own risk.
Great for learning, bad for uptime.