Hands-on Practice
Cybersecurity & Networking Labs
This section highlights hands-on cybersecurity and networking practice completed through coursework, training, and lab environments. These labs helped me build confidence with SOC-style analysis, phishing review, Windows security basics, networking fundamentals, and technical documentation.
SOC Alert Triage Practice
Practiced reviewing alerts, identifying suspicious activity, documenting findings, and determining when escalation to a higher-level analyst may be appropriate.
Skills
- • Alert review
- • Incident notes
- • Escalation decision-making
- • Security documentation
- • False positive awareness
Phishing Analysis Practice
Reviewed suspicious email indicators such as sender information, links, attachments, urgency, spoofing, and post-delivery detection results.
Skills
- • Email header awareness
- • Suspicious link review
- • Sender validation
- • User impact review
- • Security reporting
Network Scanning Concepts
Studied safe and authorized scanning concepts in controlled lab environments, including basic scan timing, service identification, and detection trade-offs.
Skills
- • Nmap fundamentals
- • Port and service awareness
- • Authorized lab scanning
- • Detection trade-off understanding
- • Documentation
Windows Security Fundamentals
Practiced Windows account, endpoint, command-line, logging, and basic system security concepts.
Skills
- • Windows command-line usage
- • Account and permission awareness
- • Endpoint security fundamentals
- • Event/log awareness
- • Troubleshooting
Networking Fundamentals
Strengthened understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ports, protocols, packet analysis, and network troubleshooting.
Skills
- • TCP/IP
- • DNS
- • DHCP
- • Ports and protocols
- • Wireshark basics
- • Network troubleshooting