About Alex Baker

I work at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and privacy, focusing on how organizations design and operate systems that protect data, users, and operations in the real world.

My background spans enterprise IT, network engineering, and cybersecurity across legal, government, education, and high-performance computing environments. I have supported multi-site organizations, managed identity and endpoint infrastructure, maintained production networks, and worked in environments where availability, confidentiality, and data integrity are not optional.

In practice, this means I’ve seen how systems fail — not just on paper, but in live environments with real users, real data, and real consequences. From firewall and identity misconfigurations to email-borne attacks and data exposure, most security problems are not caused by a lack of tools, but by how systems are designed, connected, and maintained over time.

Alongside my professional work, I operate a dedicated privacy-focused lab environment where I model enterprise risk. This includes segmented networks, monitored endpoints, intrusion detection, and data loss prevention testing using tools such as pfSense, Suricata, and Wazuh. This allows me to validate how data moves across systems, how it leaks, and how controls behave under realistic conditions.

I focus on practical, infrastructure-driven approaches to security and privacy — the parts that actually determine whether data stays protected or quietly escapes through networks, endpoints, and misconfigured systems.