About Pecka Cyber LLC

Pecka Cyber LLC is a cybersecurity consultancy and product company founded by Nicholas Pecka. We build tools and provide consulting for organizations that take cybersecurity seriously.

With 10+ years of enterprise experience, Nicholas has worked as a Lead Cyber Security Engineer at Red Hat and as a Lead SIEM Engineer at Garmin. We bring a practitioner's perspective to every engagement. We don't just advise. We build, deploy, and test the solutions we recommend.

Nicholas holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Cyber Security and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cyber Security. His research focuses on automating the threat modeling process, and his work has been published at international conferences including ICSSP and CRiSIS.

Publications & Research

Peer-reviewed research on threat modeling, DevSecOps security, and automated vulnerability detection.

Privilege Escalation Attack Scenarios on the DevOps Pipeline Within a Kubernetes Environment

Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi ben Othmane, Altaz Valani

ICSSP'22, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2022

DOI

Toward Automated Security Risk Detection in Large Software Using Call Graph Analysis

Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Renee Bryce

Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2025), p. 353, Gatineau, Quebec, November 2025

DOI forthcoming

Practical Security for the Real World

No FUD, no unnecessary complexity. Just honest assessments, research-backed approaches, and solutions that actually work in production.

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