Ken Hawrylak is a senior IT systems and security professional with over four decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, securing, and supporting complex computing environments across personal, corporate, and industrial domains. He brings a systems-level, adversarial mindset to infrastructure, application, and information security, with deep expertise in privilege boundaries, execution context, network architecture, and failure-mode analysis.

As the owner and operator of Digital Drive, Ken has architected and supported end-to-end IT solutions including large-scale system rollouts (4,500+ endpoints), Tier 3 enterprise support, custom-built computer systems, networked industrial control and database-backed safety systems, and disaster recovery operations with full data restoration. His work spans Windows client and server platforms, Active Directory and Azure AD, TCP/IP networking, cloud-hosted services, and secure web infrastructure protected against DDoS and malware threats.

In addition to traditional systems and network security, Ken is actively focused on modern security research, applying classical threat modeling to emerging domains such as AI and ML systems. His current interests include prompt injection, conditional model behavior, latent triggers, and misconfiguration-driven vulnerabilities, bridging offensive security techniques with real-world defensive engineering.

Ken is known for translating complex technical behavior into clear, teachable models, having designed and delivered training ranging from one-on-one instruction to full industrial simulations for operational staff. His approach emphasizes empirical validation, reproducible labs, rigorous documentation, and continuous self-directed learning through industry publications and technical research.