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Greets! I am a cyber security professional having a well-diversified 5 years of experience in multiple information technology domains including Pentesting, Deep Packet and Forensic Analysis, Blueteaming/SOC, Security Monitoring, and Auditing. I've had the pleasure of auditing and hardening the security of a number of industry-leading organizations. The scope of work included AWS infrastructures, Enterprise IT networks, Web/Mobile applications, and APIs. ---- Trained on: - SANS FOR408: Windows Forensic Analysis - SANS SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth - Offensive Security: PWK, Penetration with Kali Linux - (OSCP) - SANS SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling - (GIAC GCIH) - SANS SEC560: Network Pentesting and Ethical Hacking - ISO/IEC 27001:2013 - Information Security Management ---- Service Description 1. Web Application Penetration Testing based on OWASP TOP 10 2. Network Penetration Testing 3. Vulnerability Assessment 4. Security Hardening My core competency lies in performing black and gray box testing, on the live web applications/networks or in lab environments. I am familiar with all common attack vectors and mitigation techniques, as well as finding unknown to public exploits known as 0days in web applications. Even though most of my work is confidential I can share vulnerability assessment sample. ---- What I'm good at - Intrusion Analysis/NSM Bro, Snort, Suricata, Security Onion, OSSEC, OSSIM - Deep Packet Inspection TCP/IP Protocols, Traffic Flow, Scappy, Wireshark, tcpdump - Windows Forensics File Carving, Registry Hives, User Profiling, USB Analysis, Email Forensics, Prefetch Analysis, Event Log Analysis - Network Security Assessment Nmap, Nessus, OpenVAS, Metasploit, Maltego, Hashcat, John, Aircrack-ng, Netcat - Log Analysis Firewalls, Antivirus, Web Servers, Email Servers, IDS/IPS, Network Appliances ---- Tools I work with BurpSuite Professional, sqlmap, nmap, Metasploit, OpenVAS, Mimikatz, Nikto2, IBM Appscan, Acunetix. IBM QRadar, Splunk, Alienvault, LogRythm, CarbonBlack, CrowdStrike, SecurityOnion, Bro Framework, Snort/Suricata, Wireshark, tcpdump, Encase. AWS IAM, CloudTrail, WAF, Lambda, CloudFront, EC2, S3, Inspector, Macie, Kali Linux, Pfsense, WordPress, Darknet, TOR.