Eikenberg Security
Digital Network Exploitation Analyst · Department of Defense
Tegan Eikenberg.
Cybersecurity professional at the Department of Defense. My work sits at the intersection of digital network exploitation, cryptologic infrastructure, and network engineering.
I got into security because I wanted to know how things break. Then how to keep them from breaking. That's still the part I like.
Current roles
Digital Network Exploitation Analyst at DoD · Lead Privacy Officer at EikenbergSocial
Clearance
TOP SECRET//SCI with FS Poly
Education
B.S. Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, Stevenson ’28
Training
GIAC SEC401 · AWS · FISA · IT & Networking
01 / About
Security is how I make sense of technical problems.
I came in through community college. A.A.S. at Anne Arundel Community College in Security, Information Assurance, and Cybersecurity. Started at the Department of Defense before I had a bachelor's. I'm working on the B.S. in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at Stevenson while I work full time.
The work I care about is the practical side. Clean documentation. Clear incident timelines. Network behavior. The small operational decisions that decide whether a system holds up under pressure or falls over.
“I run a home lab on weekends and read threat-intel reports because I want to, not because I have to. That's the easy part.”
02 / Focus areas
Where I do my best work.
01
Network exploitation & analysis
Mapping digital networks to identify connections and reconstruct infrastructure. It's what an analyst spends most of the day on, and what makes everything downstream possible. Understand the terrain before you act on it.
02
Network engineering
Sustaining the network infrastructure my team runs. Server health, documentation, partner coordination, change management. Boring on the surface, load-bearing in practice. Most outages drag on because someone can't find what they need, and that's the part I work to fix.
03
Cryptologic infrastructure
Cryptographic key management and the systems that depend on it. The math is the easy part. Running it in production without breaking the network you're trying to protect is where it gets interesting.
04
Penetration testing
I came up on defense, but I've been working through offensive techniques in my home lab too. Enumeration, exploitation, post-exploitation. The point isn't switching sides. It's making my defensive instincts sharper by knowing what a quiet attacker actually looks like.
03 / Skills & tools
What I work with day to day.
04 / Projects
Selected work.
05 / Writing
Things I've written.
Let's talk.
If you're in the field, getting started, or curious what working in intelligence and infrastructure is really like, I'll respond.
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