Jeremy Hughes is a cybersecurity analyst in Glenville, North Carolina, and the Owner/Proprietor of Knights Code LLC, a North Carolina cybersecurity consultation company. He brings more than seven years in operations management and healthcare compliance to risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and incident response, with hands-on experience in Linux, SQL, Splunk, and Wireshark.
The career change is less of a jump than it looks. At Morrisons Healthcare he ran compliance for a hospital under HIPAA and State Department of Health oversight — conducting root cause analysis on incidents and managing the reporting protocols that documented them. At Blue Ridge Timberworks he owned business continuity planning, ran site audits and risk assessments, and built the security awareness training that staff were onboarded through.
Those are the same problems a security operations team works on: keeping things available, finding the weak points first, satisfying a regulator, and writing an incident up so it holds. The difference is the surface. He has spent the last stretch learning the technical one — the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate through Merit America, and a long run of hands-on TryHackMe work in Linux, log analysis, Wireshark, Windows forensics, and Splunk incident handling.
Through Knights Code, Jeremy has also advised the Highlands Police Department, passed information to the FBI on a case worked in December 2025, supported active hack investigations tied to loss prevention, and taught cybersecurity classes for community and high school audiences.
He is not new to consequences, either. Directing logistics for a hospital serving roughly 107 patients a day is a job where an error is not an inconvenience. That is the instinct he brings to a SOC queue.
He is currently consulting from Glenville, up in Jackson County, pursuing security work full-time while managing freelance projects to keep his operational leadership sharp.