Career Journey

• Built my website to share my career journey.
• Actively seeking jobs to pursue my career in Australia.

• Permanent Residency Granted in the last week.
• Completed CompTIA Security+ for industry validation, demonstrating my core cyber security knowledge.
• Certified in ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, PECB.

• Prepared for ISO 27001 Lead Implementer certification by practicing hands-on ISMS implementation for a simulated SMB.

• One year study refreshment, revising and practicing concepts.
• Completed Security Blue Team Junior Analyst course.
• 2-weeks year-end holiday break.

• Prepared for SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate and badged the certification.
• Practised securing hybrid homelab environment using Microsoft security tools along with Identity Access management (IAM) configurations and group policy enforcements.

• Configured Splunk for log correlation (multi-source logging) with ingestion from AWS CloudTrail logs, Azure Linux VM logs and on-premises Windows security event logs.
• Badged Splunk Enterprise Admin Certified

• Detected vulnerabilities (Nessus) on Windows & Linux VMs.
• Analysed, prioritized (CVSS, CVE), and developed remediation strategy.
• Created vulnerability reports and implemented remediations.

• Completed ISO 27001 foundations course (Advisera).
• Gained good understanding of CIS benchmarks, ASD Essential 8, ISM, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS security frameworks.

• Acquired cyber security compliance/frameworks knowledge.
• Prepared technical presentations for webinar sessions and service offering brochures.
• Analysed and streamlined presales business processes driving efficiency and formulating winning strategies.

• HackTheBox Modules (Windows OS, Incident Handling, SIEM, Event Logs, Threat Hunting, Splunk).
• Studied Splunk Fundamentals 1 & 2 (Search, Reporting, Visualization, CIM).
• Badged Splunk Core Certified Power User

• Completed all learning paths and 50% of labs in PortSwigger site
• Learnt Vulnerability assessment and basic exploitation, reconnaissance techniques, scanning and enumeration, OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities, CVEs and CVSS

Vacation break to visit parents

• Windows and Linux Operating systems, Networking (protocols, OSI model, TCP/IP), Virtualization (VMware), Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python) that I studied during uni days.
• Learnt core Azure cloud services getting hands-on practice.
• Learnt secure/cost-optimized architecture design (AWS Well-Architected Framework). Badged AWS solutions architecture associate certification.