David McHale

David McHale

Co-founder at HailBytes
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Director of Security by day, co-founder of HailBytes by night. We ship cloud-ready security tools on AWS and Azure marketplaces - SAT for the human layer, ASM for the technical perimeter. Bootstrapped, MSSP-friendly, and built by people who actually run security programs. Based in Denver.

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David McHale•

14h ago

HailBytes ASM - Self-hosted attack surface management on your own cloud

30+ recon and vulnerability scanning tools (Subfinder, Amass, Nuclei) plus AI-powered triage, deployed on your own AWS or Azure account. Continuous monitoring, custom YAML scan engines, full data sovereignty. 5-year cost: $21K vs. $600K+ for SaaS ASM.
David McHale•

1d ago

HailBytes SAT - Self-hosted security awareness training in your AWS/Azure

Phishing simulation and security awareness training that runs entirely in your own AWS or Azure account. 45+ industry-specific templates, AI-driven campaign generation via MCP, interactive quizzes, branded PDF completion certificates, OIDC SSO, and SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit evidence. Unlimited campaigns for unlimited users on a single marketplace subscription. $0.24/vCPU/hr vs. $30K+/year per-seat licensing from KnowBe4 or Proofpoint Security Awareness.
David McHale•

3mo ago

Denver For All - Open-source civic toolkit - fork it for your city

Denver For All is an open-source civic platform with 48 data-driven policy proposals and 12 interactive tools, eviction tracker, campaign finance dashboard, rent calculator, and AI tenant rights chatbot (English/Spanish). Built with Astro, React, and TypeScript. Hosted free on Cloudflare Pages. MIT licensed. The whole platform is designed to be forked. QUICKSTART.md walks any city through adapting the policies, swapping data sources, and deploying their own version.
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