Mohammed Alrashid
- Security Engineer
- PassiveLogic
- Salt Lake City, UT
I'm a Security Engineer at PassiveLogic, based in Salt Lake City. I own vulnerability management, identity and access, email security, and incident response for a cloud-native building automation platform, and I review internal platforms for risk before release. Right now I'm building pentesting skills so I can test those systems more deeply. Zero trust is the topic I keep coming back to. I like understanding why a system behaves the way it does, including when it breaks.
Interests
Home lab
Running my own services and figuring out the networking, storage, and security around them.
Local AI
A dual-GPU inference server for experimenting with local models and security tooling.
How I think
Understand the access
I want to know who can reach a system, what they can do, and why they need that access. Being on the same network shouldn't answer those questions.
Test the assumption
A setting can look right and still fail in practice. I care about checking the actual behavior, whether that's a firewall rule, a revoked session, or a backup restore.
Keep learning
My current work is defensive. I want to build stronger pentesting skills so I can test systems more deeply and explain the risk with evidence.
What I use
A few tools and systems I spend time with.
- Proxmox
- Linux
- GCP
- Azure
- Entra ID
- Wiz
- Rapid7 InsightVM
- Python
- Bash
- Terraform
- Docker
- Local AI