Cloud Security Engineer · 8 years

I build cloud security for a living, and teach the rest of it in public.

Eight years securing cloud infrastructure, and the last few explaining what that work actually looks like. What began as notes to myself turned into a weekly newsletter, a course, a book, and an audience of more than 160,000 people trying to break into cyber security, or level up once they are in.

I host The X-Ops Brief at Sophos, write Cyber Notes every week, and build the practical training I wish had existed when I started.

Will Pearce

Worked with

  • Microsoft
  • Hack The Box
  • Twingate
  • DeleteMe
  • GRC Mastery
  • OBSBOT
  • WhiteRabbitNeo

Sponsorships, technical content, launch campaigns and long form video. Get in touch if you’d like to work together.

02 The show

The X-Ops Brief

Creator and host at Sophos

Security insights from Sophos X-Ops, covering the latest threat intelligence, ransomware trends and the attack campaigns worth paying attention to.

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03 The course

Tech Two Forty, Cloud Security and DevSecOps Beginners Academy, with Docker, Terraform, Git, Linux, AWS and Python logos

Tech Two Forty

Cloud Security & DevSecOps Beginners Academy

The full path from zero to employable: Linux, Python, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Git and CI/CD pipelines, taught the way the job actually uses them.

Built for people starting out, by someone still doing the work.

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04 The book

A hand holding a copy of Tech One Twenty on a desk beside a laptop

Tech One Twenty

Over 2,000 copies sold

Everything I’d tell someone over coffee if they asked how to get into tech, written down, in order, with nothing padded out to hit a page count.

No certifications you don’t need. No roadmap with forty branches. Just the path, the work, and what it really takes.

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Let’s work together.

Sponsorships, speaking, podcasts and consulting.