Tines / Splunk – Automated Customized Alerts

Simple overview: This Tines/Splunk project receives alerts from Splunk running on a server crawling through access logs, user event logs, and nginx logs based on pre-set thresholds or events to trigger the alert. Although Splunk provides adequate alerting actions out of the box, I decided to integrate their webhook alert function with Tines. Not only […]

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Tines – Command Based Inputs Project

Simple overview: Command based input (i.e. chatbot) to receive specific results based on the command input. Currently works for receiving the most recent relevant Google search news result for the keyword(s) you supply or a command to receive a current stock market quote of the supplied stock ticker. This is basically just a “for fun” […]

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Tines – IoT Project

Simple overview: Receive notifications to phone via HTTPS requests/webhooks from an arduino controller paired with an internet/gps sim shield. Potentially remote control the device via reverse method.   This Tines Automation project started out as a simple project using IFTTT’s applet service. The original applet service was simply integrating smart home control with 3rd party […]

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Tines – News Updates

Simple overview: This story is basically the same conceptually as the server status story with the core difference that this automatically receives any news posted to a specific/specified Google alert RSS feed for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and […]

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Tines Server Status Updates

Simple overview: This story automatically receives any updates posted to specific/specified RSS feeds for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and collect snippet information. The story will then proceed to send that snippet data to my choice (in this case […]

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Tines Email Template Generator

After completing class project 4. I had moved on to what would technically be my 3rd project with Tines: Programmatically personalizing emails based off templates. At the core, this Tines story takes a pre-defined email template and will go through and personalize it per intended recipient (including names, dates, specifics, attachments, CC addresses, BCC addresses, […]

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Phishing Email Analysis Automation – Tines SOAR (Project 4)

For project 4 (the final project of the Cybersecurity class I took in second half of 2023), I decided to do it on Automating email analysis in Tines for suspicious links, files and sender addresses using virustotal and emailrep.io APIs. It was a bit of a steep learning curve for me to be able to […]

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Tines – Automation Overview

The now very elaborate and complex Tines Automation project started out as a simple project using IFTTT’s applet service. The original applet service was simply integrating smart home control with 3rd party services and APIs. The next iteration led to integrating an Arduino (Do-it-yourself programmable microcontroller) with IoT devices (mainly GPS tracking services as well […]

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