Justin Duru

Before this was a company it was three jobs: tuning Microsoft Sentinel for a federal agency, automating response in Splunk SOAR, and teaching SOC fundamentals at Ellington Cyber Academy. All three taught the same lesson. Real growth comes from hands-on repetition, not from watching someone else do the work.

Hands-on work is not enough once AI can write the query and summarize the alert. What still matters is knowing how to think: how to read what a system is telling you, when to trust it, and when to push back. That judgment is what I teach, instead of a shortcut to a flag.

I kept running into two gaps. Smaller security teams need stronger coverage and do not have the headcount to build and maintain it by hand. And new analysts finish their training knowing the terms but not the work, because they never practiced on a real network. PurveX takes on both. AI agents can close the coverage gap when they are paired with someone who understands what is happening underneath, and hands-on training builds the analysts who will be that someone. No team should need to be enterprise-sized to be secure.