What This Blog Is
This is the blog of Halkyn Consulting, an independent security consultancy based in North Wales. It has been running since 2011 and covers digital forensics and incident response, Windows and Linux internals, security management, risk, and compliance – along with a library of free checklists and templates. The aim is simple: clear, practical security content without hype or vendor spin.
Who Writes It
The blog is managed by Taz Wake, founder and Security Director of Halkyn Consulting. Taz has over two decades of experience across intelligence, cyber security and incident response, beginning his career in military intelligence before moving into digital security and leading incident response teams for FTSE 100 companies.
He is a certified instructor with the SANS Institute, the author of the FOR577: Linux Incident Response & Threat Hunting course, a co-author of the FOR608: Enterprise Incident Response and Threat Hunting course, and also teaches advanced digital forensics and threat hunting (FOR508). Certifications held across the consultancy include CISSP, GCFA, GLIR, CISM and CPP.
You can find Taz on LinkedIn, GitHub, Mastodon and Bluesky.
About Halkyn Consulting
Halkyn Consulting was founded in 2010 and has specialised in digital forensics and incident response since 2014, supporting clients across finance, defence, manufacturing, education and critical infrastructure – in the UK and internationally. The consultancy is vendor-independent: no products, no resale, just evidence-led advice.
If you want help rather than reading material, see the services summary on this blog, the full services list on the main site, or contact the team directly.
Using This Site
New readers should start with the Start Here page, which maps the main article series. Free materials are collected on the resources page. For anything else, the search box and category listings cover fifteen years of archives.