Portfolio Samples (page 2)

Abstract This was a half-semester long group project that I completed collaboratively with Brock Byard and Jacob Derenzy. The primary goal of our project was to simulate the environment of a security operations center (SOC) by deploying tools to detect, record, and investigate suspicious network activity. Some major components of the project included: Renting a Proxmox host accessible via the Internet Securing Proxmox from forbidden outsider access Configuring the virtual network and machines Deploying a standalone Security Onion SIEM Installing guest operating systems and Elastic endpoint agents Setting up a live honeypot system Using attacker machines to exploit vulnerabilities Investigating the captured traffic to determine if malicious activity had occurred The slides and demonstration video that were created for our presentation are included below. read more...

Abstract This is a collection of pentesting projects that were conducted in an AWS cloud lab. A dedicated VPC was created and configured to host the EC2 machines. Preview Previous Next     / [pdf] View the PDF file here.

Abstract This is an overview of the Rapid7 InsightConnect automation that I created collaboratively with Caydon Thomas during my internship at National Heritage Academies (NHA). It reduces that amount of time that security analysts and support technicians spend initiating and tracking endpoint remediation tickets by allowing one to interactively build and submit service requests. Error handling, execution status updates (analogous to return codes), help, and troubleshooting features are built-in. Diagram Click to view full size image read more...

Abstract This was a group project where students were tasked with investigating a real malware sample of their choosing using the ANY.RUN malware sandbox. Results are delivered in the form of a blog post. Our professor gave us permission to submit our project for consideration to be published in the guest category of the official ANY.RUN blog, but it was unfortunately not selected. If you’re interested, their Q&A with my professor (Dr. Jim Furstenburg) about cybersecurity education is a good read. He has a lot of great experience and wisdom to share, and the post offers some insights into how the ISIN program at Ferris approaches teaching. read more...

Abstract These samples are from classes about using machine learning and AI concepts to solve business problems. Additional samples will be added at a later date. Samples These samples are best viewed as HTML exports of the Jupyter Notebooks (not mobile friendly): Titanic dataset preprocessing/analysis Group model creation project