Technology Built to Create Opportunity
Secure Engineering.Practical Software.Computers for Everyone.
Elliot Labs LLC uses technology to open doors.
We securely refurbish donated computers and give them, free of charge, to people who could not otherwise afford one. We publish practical engineering guidance through Secure Standardized Engineering, and we develop reusable TypeScript packages that help engineers build more dependable software.
Different forms of work, one underlying purpose: make technology safer, more understandable, and more accessible.
Three Ways We Put Technology to Work
Elliot Labs began by solving practical technology problems. That same hands-on approach continues today through community support, engineering education, and software development.
Computer Donation
Donated computers are securely sanitized, thoroughly tested, updated, and prepared for people who need them.
Recipients are not charged for the equipment.
Secure Standardized Engineering
Software Engineering
Education Through Shared Engineering Practices
Secure Standardized Engineering
Secure Standardized Engineering, or SSE, is an evolving collection of principles, patterns, and implementation guidance for software and infrastructure engineering.
The goal is not to produce another checklist that developers follow without understanding. SSE explains the reasoning behind engineering decisions so that people can apply the underlying principles when requirements, platforms, and threats change.
The published guidance is designed to help engineers build systems that are:
- Secure from the outset
- Consistent across teams and projects
- Readable by technical and non-technical reviewers
- Easier to maintain and automate
- Resistant to common implementation mistakes
- Designed for real operating environments
- Understandable by both people and automated tooling
The current SSE site describes the project as guidance for securing software-development and infrastructure projects from the outset, reducing vulnerabilities and insider threats, and applying an Assume Breach mindset. It also includes non-security conventions and design patterns intended to improve consistency and readability. Secure Standardized Engineering currently includes shared concepts and TypeScript guidance, with areas for GitHub, PowerShell, and Azure identified in its navigation.