Projects
Featured Projects
Security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, and malware analysis projects completed as part of my cybersecurity education and home lab.
Building a Network Security Monitoring Lab with Proxmox, Arkime, Suricata, Zeek, and SiLK
Designed and built a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) home lab from the ground up using Proxmox, Arkime, Suricata, Zeek, SiLK, YAF, Open vSwitch, and Metasploitable 2. The project documents the complete monitoring pipeline from full packet capture and IDS alerting to protocol metadata and flow analytics, along with the troubleshooting required to validate each stage of the telemetry pipeline.
Blue Team Investigation of a Simulated Metasploit PsExec Attack
Simulated a Metasploit PsExec-based intrusion on a Windows 10 machine and performed end-to-end blue team investigation using PowerShell and Sysmon to detect service execution, process chains, and C2 connections (including a Netcat backdoor).
Creating and Defending Against Netcat Backdoor Shells with Named Pipes
Built a lab to practice Netcat backdoor techniques and defender countermeasures. Covers creating login and reverse
shells using named pipes (mkfifo) on Linux and documents detection and mitigation steps for blue teams.