I'm an aspiring SOC Analyst with a passion for Blue Team operations, threat detection, incident response, and cybersecurity.

I'm building hands-on cybersecurity experience through practical labs, TryHackMe, and real-world projects involving Windows Event Logs, Sysmon, Splunk, Kali Linux, and network security.

My goal is to begin my career as a Tier 1 SOC Analyst while continuously developing my skills in defensive security and threat analysis.

• Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Windows Event Log Analysis
• Threat Detection
• Incident Response
• Authentication Monitoring
• FTP Log Analysis
• Fail2Ban

• Windows
• Kali Linux

• Splunk
• Sysmon
• Wireshark
• Burp Suite Community Edition
• Hydra
• Nmap
• OpenVPN
• VirtualBox

• Bash

• SQL

• HTML

• CSS

• JavaScript

• PHP

• Flutter (Basic)

  🚀 Currently Learning

• Security Operations Center (SOC) Operations

• Splunk SIEM

• Sysmon Log Analysis

• Threat Hunting Fundamentals

• Detection Engineering

• TryHackMe Blue Team Labs

• Configured a vsftpd FTP server in Kali Linux.
• Simulated an FTP dictionary attack using Hydra.
• Analysed authentication logs and created Bash alert scripts.
• Configured Fail2Ban to detect and block repeated failed login attempts.

• Configured Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder.
• Forwarded Sysmon Operational logs through TCP port 9997.
• Verified Windows endpoint telemetry ingestion using SPL.
• Investigated Sysmon Process Create events in Splunk.

• Hackwiser – Certified Cybersecurity Foundations

• Google AI Essentials – Coursera

• NVIDIA DLI – Fundamentals of Deep Learning

• AWS Cloud Course – Verzeo

• AWS Internship Completion – Verzeo

• AWS SysOps Administrator Associate – Udemy

  📫 Connect With Me

• 💼 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joshuasamuel-soc

Every alert tells a story—my job is to uncover it.