Q2 2026 Roadmap

Overview

Unified view of Q2 2026 (April — June) deliverables across all domains. CISSP exam: July 12, 2026 (10-week plan, Week 1 active). RHCSA: Q3 2026 after CISSP.

Q2 2026 Roadmap (April — June)

Certifications

CISSP is the priority. 10-week plan active.
Domain Item Target Date Status Dependencies

Certification

CISSP — ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional

July 12, 2026

ACTIVE — Week 1/10 (Domain 1: Risk)

Sybex book, Boson exams, Pocket Prep app

Certification

RHCSA 9 — Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Q3 2026

Ch 1-2 / 20 (10%)

After CISSP. Lab environment (KVM)

Certification

Claude Code Certification — Anthropic (Nick Saraev course)

Q2 2026

IN PROGRESS (26:49/4hr)

Course completion, practice projects

Certification

LPIC-1 Renewal — Linux Professional Institute

Q2 2026

RENEW — check expiry

Check expiry date, register for exam

Language

SIELE C1 — Instituto Cervantes (computer-based)

Q2 2026

ACTIVE

Comprension auditiva practice, subjuntivo mastery

Work Projects (CHLA)

Domain Item Target Date Status Dependencies

Work P0

SIEM QRadar → Sentinel Migration — LEAD. 4 collection iterations, Python chart pipeline, migration XLSX, verification pending.

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — collection done, verification pending

Monad pipeline, Sentinel KQL

Work P0

Linux Research (Xianming Ding) — EAP-TLS completion

Overdue (02-24)

BEHIND (59 days)

nmcli certificate fix

Work P0

iPSK Manager — Pre-shared key automation

 — 

BEHIND

DB replication (Ben Castillo)

Work P0

MSCHAPv2 Migration — 6,084 devices, 29 types, 5-wave deployment

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — weekly cadence Wed, ownership matrix defined

netapi DataConnect queries, pandas analytics

Work P0

TCP Clocks deployment — ISE identity group validation

April 2026

ACTIVE — queries run, comms in progress

Identity group verification, team coordination

Work P0

Murus Portae (WAF) — Phase 0 discovery, FMC cert expired

Q2 2026

INVESTIGATING — d001 has zone map, architecture D2, FMC API ref

FMC cert fix, ACP investigation

Work P0

Mandiant Remediation — findings status, guest ACL, SIEM posture report

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — d001 comms Apr 23, findings from Apr 16

Lab validation, joint CR with NE

Work P0

Research Segmentation — Untrusted VLAN migration

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BLOCKED

CISO decision

Work P0

Abnormal Security — AI email security, ESA cutover

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — read-only integration live

Cutover timeline confirmation

Work P1

Sentinel KQL Proficiency — queries, Copilot-assisted, differentiate from team

April 2026

ACTIVE — Azure access acquired

Azure portal access

Work P1

Monad Pipeline Evaluation — LEAD. Test pipeline creation, input sources

April 2026

TODO (44 days carried)

Lab environment setup

Work P1

Firewall audit — FMC device & policy inventory done (d001)

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — FMC discovery complete

EtherChannel, prefilter, policy queries

Work P1

QRadar to Sentinel Migration — SIEM platform transition

Q2 2026

Active — see SIEM P0 entry above

Monad pipeline evaluation

Work P1

Vocera/Wyse iTrack RCA — RabbitMQ CPU spike

April 2026

OPEN

Cisco TAC case, endpoint log analysis

Work P1

Strongline Gateway — MAC capture, Identity Group setup

Q2 2026

Active (39 days)

8 devices reassignment (David Rukiza)

Work P1

Downtime Computers enforcement — ISE AuthZ rule draft

Q2 2026

PENDING — audit delivered, enforcement CR needed

Separate CR after audit acceptance

Work P1

NebulaONE AI Platform — Azure/Cloudforce

Q2 2026

Active

C-level direction

Work P1

DMZ Migration — external services audit behind NetScaler

Q2 2026

Active — linked to Murus Portae

NetScaler reverse proxy audit

Personal Milestones

Domain Item Target Date Status Dependencies

Personal

Z Fold 7 Termux — gopass and SSH restoration

ASAP

BLOCKER (45 days)

Termux SSH + gopass configuration

Personal

gopass v3 organization — Restructure password store

April 2026

Active (35 days)

gopass-personal-docs templates

Personal

Tax filing 2025 (MFJ) — deadline Apr 23

PAST DUE

CONFIRM STATUS

Alexandra W-2, 1099-NEC, 1098-E, child info

Personal

Housing search — Granada Hills area

Q2 2026

In Progress

Budget, location research

Revenue

netapi Commercialization — Go CLI rewrite, Cobra-style arg discovery

Q2-Q3 2026

P0 ACTIVE

Go evaluation, CLI framework selection

Revenue

Ollama API Service — 17 endpoints, productize config audit + doc tools

Q2 2026

P0 ACTIVE

Web UI, fine-tuning pipeline

Personal

Crypta — educational roguelike in Rust (5,490 lines). Learning Rust via game dev.

Q2 2026

ACTIVE — v0.2, 10-lesson curriculum planned

Rust lesson progression

Personal

ThinkPad P16g Setup — Arch install complete, Phase 12 security pending

Q2 2026

OPERATIONAL — AppArmor SEC-001 remaining

AppArmor baseline, enforce profiles

Personal

System State Arena — competition prep Aug 22-24

Aug 2026

Phase 0 this week (Apr 21-27)

Daily practice, man-page-only methodology

Infrastructure

Domain Item Target Date Status Dependencies

Infra

k3s NAT verification — NAT rule 170 for pod network

ASAP (46 days carried)

P0 BLOCKING

VyOS NAT rule testing

Infra

Wazuh indexer recovery — Restart pod after NAT fix

After k3s NAT

P0 Blocked

k3s NAT verification

Infra

ISE Patch 10 upgrade — ISE 3.2 Patch 10 (CVE-2026-20147 CVSS 9.9)

Q2 2026

P0 TODO

Patch availability, change window

Infra

ISE MnT Messaging Service — Enable UDP syslog delivery

Q2 2026

P2 TODO

ISE maintenance window

Infra

Monad Pipeline Evaluation — Test pipeline creation

April 2026

P1 TODO (44 days)

Lab environment, test data

Infra

Borg backup validation — ALL systems

Q2 2026

TODO

Script path updates, initial archives

Active Blockers

CRITICAL Blockers

Domain Blocker Impact Days Blocked By Action Required

Work

k3s NAT verification

SIEM visibility blocked — Wazuh cannot start without pod networking

46

VyOS NAT rule 170 untested

Test NAT for 10.42.0.0/16 pod network, verify internet connectivity

Work

Wazuh indexer recovery

No SIEM log ingestion — security blind spot

46

k3s NAT verification

Restart Wazuh pod after NAT confirmed working

Work

SIEM QRadar → Sentinel Migration

Organization-wide SIEM transition. Monad console error resolved 05-12. Secrets configured. Blocked on DCR creation.

32

DCR not created (Rule ID + Stream Name) + Azure private network policy

Victor/Mauricio: create DCR. Victor: resolve Azure network policy.

Work

MSCHAPv2 Migration Reporting

Report due. 6,227 devices, 5 waves. 6 batch SQL queries + 3-API profile script built (05-11). Migration window 05-04 to 05-30.

25

Report needs to be turned in

Turn in report. Batch MAC triage ready for incoming Teams disconnect request.

Work

Monad ETL Pipeline

Console error resolved 05-12. 3/6 values configured. Blocked on DCR creation.

62

DCR not created (Rule ID + Stream Name)

10am call today. Victor/Mauricio: create DCR.

Work

Murus Portae (WAF)

FMC management cert expired, ACP returns zero rules via API. Phase 0 discovery stalled.

8

FMC cert fix, ACP investigation

Fix FMC cert, resolve zero-rule API response, complete Q1-Q8 discovery queries

Work

Research Segmentation

Research endpoints remain on trusted network

 — 

CISO decision pending

Escalate for CISO decision on Untrusted VLAN migration

Work

IoT Dr. Kim — recurring incident

Sleep study devices + watches. 3 incidents across Apr 15, 16, 22.

9

iPSK enrollment validation

Validate iPSK, check identity group stability, document IoT validation queries

Personal

Z Fold 7 Termux

Cannot access passwords on mobile — no gopass, no SSH

45

Termux SSH and gopass broken

Debug Termux SSH config, reinstall gopass, test key access

Personal

Tax filing 2025 (MFJ)

Deadline was Apr 23. Status unknown — confirm with user.

1

Need Alexandra W-2, 1099-NEC, 1098-E, child info

Confirm filed or escalate immediately

Certification Deadlines

URGENT — Performance Review Certifications

Certification Provider Deadline Status Impact

CISSP

ISC² — Certified Information Systems Security Professional

July 12, 2026

ACTIVE — Week 2 of 10 (Project)

Required for performance review. 10-week accelerated plan.

RHCSA 9

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Q3 2026

ACTIVE — 21-phase curriculum (Project)

After CISSP. Required for performance review.

CISSP: 41 days remaining (exam July 12). Domain 1 study in progress. Schedule exam today (06-01).

Planned (After Urgent)

Certification Provider Target Status

Claude Code Certification

Anthropic

Q2 2026

IN PROGRESS

LPIC-2

Linux Professional Institute

After LPIC-1 renewal

Blocked

DevNet Associate

Cisco Developer Network

Q3 2026

Draft (Project)

CyberOps Associate

Cisco Security Operations

Q4 2026

Draft (Project)

Project Pipeline

Work Projects — Critical (P0)

ID Project Priority Status Owner Target Blocker

PRJ-SEG

Research Segmentation — Zero-trust VLAN segmentation

P0

BLOCKED

Evan

CR due 04/13 (window 04/15)

CISO decision pending. CR-2026-04-15

PRJ-LNX

Linux Research (Ding/Shahab) — Enterprise EAP-TLS standardization

P0

BEHIND

Evan

02-24 (overdue)

Certificate deployment, CISO priority

PRJ-MSCHAP

MSCHAPv2 Migration — Legacy auth deprecation (6,084 endpoints, 29 device types)

P0

BEHIND

Evan

 — 

Data analysis complete, wave planning needed

PRJ-IPSK

iPSK Manager HA — Pre-shared key automation

P0

Active

Evan / Ben

 — 

Server 1 in production (HTTP/80, insecure SQL). Server 2 VM staged. Security audit needed.

Work Projects — High Priority (P1)

ID Project Priority Status Owner Target Blocker

PRJ-ABNORMAL

Abnormal Security — Cisco ESA → API-based email security

P1

Active (newly assigned)

Evan

 — 

Cisco → Microsoft stack shift

PRJ-SIEM

QRadar to Sentinel Migration — Full SIEM platform transition

P1

Active

Evan

Q2 2026

Monad evaluation complete, SDK integration pending

PRJ-MONAD

Monad Pipeline Evaluation — ETL lead role

P1

Active (32 days)

Evan

 — 

Trial complete, 7 connectors verified

PRJ-DMZ

DMZ Migration — External services audit behind NetScaler

P1

Active — audit phase

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-ISE34

ISE 3.4 Migration — Upgrade from 3.2p9

P1

Blocked

Evan

Q1 2026 (overdue)

ISE Patch 9 prerequisite

PRJ-SW

Switch Upgrades — IOS-XE fleet update (C9300, 3560CX)

P1

Pending

Evan

Q1 2026 (overdue)

Change window scheduling

PRJ-SL

Strongline Gateway — VLAN fix, MAC capture

P1

Active (27 days)

Evan / David Rukiza

 — 

8 devices in wrong identity group

PRJ-NEB

NebulaONE AI Platform — C-level visibility, Azure/Cloudforce

P1

Active

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-VOCERA

Vocera EAP-TLS Supplicant Fix — ~10 phones failing 802.1X

P1

Active (31 days)

Evan

 — 

Missing supplicant config

PRJ-NETDIAG

Network Diagram Library — L1-L7 enterprise D2 diagrams

P1

Active — scaffolding

Evan

 — 

New project, team presentation 04/13

Personal Projects — Active

ID Project Priority Status Owner Target Blocker

PRJ-CC

Claude Code — Skills, hooks, MCP servers, agents

P0

Active (v2)

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-CERT

Certifications — CISSP (July 12), RHCSA (Q3). 17 total planned.

P0

ACTIVE — CISSP Week 1/10

Evan

July 12, 2026

70 days remaining (CISSP)

PRJ-BIB

PRJ-BIBLIOTHECA — Multi-spoke scripture/literature library

P1

Active — Phase 1 complete

Evan

 — 

Hub deploy blocked by CF build timeout (SC-001)

PRJ-DIAG

Domus Diagrams — Visual knowledge system (8 domains)

P1

Active — scaffolding

Evan

 — 

New project

PRJ-DQ

dots-quantum — Dotfiles framework (35 stow packages)

P1

Active (Primary)

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-NVIM

domus-nvim — Neovim configuration

P1

Active Development

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-NAPI

netapi — Network automation library (23 vendors)

P1

Active (Alpha)

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-RADIO

Amateur Radio — Technician to General, mentor Cliff

P2

Active

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-DD

Domus Digitalis — Next.js/TypeScript webapp

P2

Active

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-MATH

domus-math — College Algebra through applied crypto

P1

Active

Evan

 — 

None

PRJ-SIEM-R

SIEM: QRadar to Sentinel — Migration with Monad log filtering

P1

Active

Evan

Q2 2026

Monad evaluation

ITSM Summary

ITSM Ticket Counts

Type Open Pending Total

Service Requests (SR)

2

0

2

Incidents (INC)

1

0

1

Change Requests — Emergency

0

0

0

Change Requests — Normal

0

0

0

Change Requests — Scheduled

0

0

0

Change Requests — RCA

1

0

1

TOTAL

4

0

4