/A minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing. 2026-08-03T06:02:50+00:00 Grant Stevens / Jekyll © 2026 Grant Stevens /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-04-02T16:30:00+00:00 2025-04-04T05:52:38+00:00 /posts/Kicking-off/ Grant Stevens

Hey! Thank you for taking time to check out my new website! I plan on posting certification reviews, CTF writeups, homelab updates, projects, personal research and more! At the time of writing, I am about to graduate with my bachelor’s at the University of South Florida. This website was created to showcase my experience and what I have been working on behind the scenes. After all, everything c...

2023-12-10T16:30:00+00:00 2025-04-04T23:10:48+00:00 /posts/CSAW-Smug-Dino-CTF-Writeup/ Grant Stevens

Reconnaissance Opening the challenge we are presented with the website http://web.csaw.io:3009/ as shown below: We are greeted with a picture of a dinosaur and two more pages we can visit. Clicking on Hint leads us to http://web.csaw.io:3009/hint which reveals a mostly blank webpage with the form below. Clicking on Flag? reveals a failed request to http://localhost:3009/flag.txt Sin...

2023-12-08T16:30:00+00:00 2025-04-07T18:10:47+00:00 /posts/CompTIA-Cybersecurity-Analyst+-(CySA+)-Review/ Grant Stevens

Note: Links to resources are at the bottom of the page Accreditation Link How I studied All CySA+ material required you to learn what CompTIA considered the correct actions in a security analyst position. As I had recently finished my SOC analyst internship at ReliaQuest, this required me to unlearn certain things I was taught. I utilized the Jason Dion Udemy course to learn the breadth of th...

2023-07-15T16:30:00+00:00 2025-04-06T19:00:26+00:00 /posts/CompTIA-Security+-(Sec+)-Review/ Grant Stevens

Note: Links to resources are at the bottom of the page. Accreditation Link How I studied I utilized the TestOut software which included pdf notes, videos, labs, quizzes, and a test at the end of the course. The content was good, but it taught things in addition to security+ so you could pass their own in house version of security+. I really only wanted to study security+ and could care less a...