I’m Andrew Alvarado, a former intelligence analyst and U.S. Army veteran with more than 10 years of experience in cyber intelligence, operational security, signature management, and digital footprint analysis.

Over the years, I’ve worked in environments where understanding exposure, reducing visibility, and protecting sensitive information truly mattered. That background shaped how I think about privacy today: not as paranoia, perfection, or a pile of random tools, but as a practical system that helps people make better decisions in everyday life.

I’m building a privacy education series to make digital privacy clearer, calmer, and more useful for normal people. This course is the first step in that series, focused on helping learners understand how exposure works and how to build a realistic privacy baseline they can actually maintain.