Aspiring Cyber Security Specialist

Young, passionate, and ready to make an impact!!

Passionate about anything and everything security related. An experienced IT Consultant with 4 years of experience working in an agile large corporate environment and providing unforgettable experiences to many clients. Doing all this while maintaining my addiction to expanding my cyber security knowledge and experience through my home lab as well as projects. I am young, passionate, and ready to make an impact!!!. I am a Certified Ethical hacker Master plagued with the overwhelming urge to tinker, figure things out, and protect your organization from cybercriminals. Currently working towards obtaining my Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Certification by March 2023. Thank you for taking the time to view my portfolio 😎

What I’m working on

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Certification

Security Operations

I am currently working on becoming a Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate and the estimated date of achievement is March 2023. This course has taught me how to investigate, respond to, and hunt threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft 365 Defender, and some third-party security products. Since...

QRadar Community Edition as a Home SIEM tool

Community Edition is a fully-featured free version of QRadar that is low memory, low EPS, and includes a perpetual license. This version is limited to 50 events per second and 5,000 network flows a minute, and supports apps, but is based on a smaller footprint for non-enterprise use. I will...

Home NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) Using Sucricata 🔔

This will be installed and configured on a Raspberry Pi3. The intrusion detection engine will be Suricata. To push the Suricata events to Elasticsearch, I'll be using Fluent Bit. Kibana will be used to present the data in a presentable dashboard format.

Projects

Home Lab 👨🏾‍💻

Built a hacking lab in Oracle VirtualBox to simulate a close-to-real-life enterprise network. I deployed a few vulnerable virtual machines to help me apply my skills to find and fix vulnerabilities. The deployed machines include Metasploitable 2, OWASP broken web application. The lab also includes unpatched OS like Windows 8.1...

Home Network Security 🔐

Changed the SSID from the default provided by the manufacturer. Changed the default router password to a much stronger and more robust password. This password is changed every six months. I have strengthened my home Wi-fi encryption to Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA 3) as it is more secure and...

Experience

System Engineer

Taulite, Systems Engineer
Johannesburg | January, 2019 - April, 2025

IT consultant for MTN Group providing support to all the Opcos
BMC Remedy (ITSM) Support, Development, and Customization
Change Management
Incident Management
Service Request Management
SOAP Web Services Development
Linux Administration
Windows Administration
Oracle SQL Administration
24/7 Standby Support

Computer Systems Engineering Intern

RGEMS, Computer Systems Engineering Intern
Bloemfontein | January, 2017 - January, 2018

Duties:

Sensing, recording, and control of the operational parameters of manufacturing and material-handling apparatus.
Intelligent maintenance, including performance degrading prediction and scheduling.
Machine vision-based quality assurance and measuring systems.
Radiofrequency identification technologies for inventory control.
Optimization of the function of vision-guided automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) in a dynamically changing industrial environment.
Deployment of intelligent (autonomous) software agents in the software subsystems of automatedmaterial-handling systems.