Talha M.

🔐 Wazuh SIEM specialist and SOC engineer with hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing security monitoring infrastructure for enterprise environments. I help businesses detect threats, respond to incidents, and maintain secure, high-availability IT infrastructure across Linux and Windows systems. Whether you need a Wazuh SIEM deployed from scratch, SIEM alert tuning, endpoint security hardening, or full SOC operations support. I deliver production-ready solutions, not just configurations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡 SECURITY & SIEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Wazuh SIEM – Full deployment, agent onboarding, custom rules & decoders ✔ Log Management & Analysis – Syslog, Windows Event Logs, CEF/JSON ingestion ✔ Threat Detection & Incident Response – Alert triage, IR documentation, root cause analysis ✔ Endpoint Security – Kaspersky EDR, ESET PROTECT, VirusTotal FIM integration ✔ Firewall & Network Security – pfSense, FortiGate, IPsec VPN, WAN hardening ✔ GeoIP Enrichment & Attack Dashboards – OpenSearch/Kibana visualizations ✔ Active Response Automation – Python scripting, email alerting, SMTP integrations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖥 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Windows Server – Active Directory (AD DS), DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, AD CS ✔ Linux Server – Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat / RHEL — setup, hardening, automation ✔ Virtualization – VMware ESXi, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, XenServer ✔ Monitoring & NMS – Zabbix, PRTG, Nagios, Wazuh agent health monitoring ✔ Backup & Recovery – Veeam Backup, NFS, disaster recovery planning ✔ Email & Cloud – Zimbra Mail Server, Nextcloud, OwnCloud ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 NETWORKING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Routing & Switching – VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, static & dynamic routing ✔ VPN – IPsec site-to-site, OpenVPN, WireGuard, Cloudflare Zero Trust ✔ Firewalls – pfSense HA/CARP cluster, FortiGate policy management ✔ Remote Access – RustDesk, MeshCentral, self-hosted RDP solutions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 CERTIFICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ CC – Certified in Cybersecurity (ISC²) ✔ CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate ✔ RHCSA – In Progress I bring real enterprise experience not just lab setups. My work spans SOC operations at a national-scale defense retail chain, infrastructure security across border terminals and logistics sites, and ongoing managed security services for international clients. 📩 Available for one-time projects, ongoing retainers, and urgent engagements. Let's secure your infrastructure message me to get started.