I created ShinySec as a centralized place to publish and organize my educational work in information assurance and sometimes cybersecurity.

A big part of why this exists is because I wanted advanced concepts in security to be more accessible. Especially for people working in roles where security education is part of your tasks, like graduate study programs or intelligence-adjacent environments.

A lot of cybersecurity content focuses on vendor tools or surface-level practices. I care more about the underlying reasoning, like how trust works, why controls exist, and how systems actually hold up under real human conditions.

That’s where information assurance comes in, and it’s something I think the field overlooks more often than it should.

I built ShinySec mostly out of frustration with how modern security concepts are being taught.

When I was first starting, a lot of the material I needed either didn’t exist or was locked behind paywalls, private groups, or had really unclear paths. That slowed down a lot more people than I assumed, so I decided research what it would take to create an open access library of the works I've created (mostly intended to help educators).

That's why I’ve made a deliberate decision to keep everything here publicly available, auditable, and freely distributed.

I don’t do gated content or exclusivity. The goal is to make high-quality material accessible without barriers, and to contribute something back to the space that I didn’t have when I started.

I’m Shiny Sentry, the founder of ShinySec and editor-in-chief of Unassured Media. I'm interested in all things defensive security, especially anything to do with policy management and GRC.

My work focuses on information assurance, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), with a particular interest in trustless system design and identity/access management. Lately I’ve been exploring approaches that go beyond traditional zero trust models.

Outside of security, I’m into mutual aid, fantasy literature, and digital illustration. I'm often experimenting with programming in my free time and finding ways to intersect these things.