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Naol Mengistu
Cybersecurity | DevOps | Cloud Engineering
Hello, I'm
Cybersecurity | DevOps | Cloud Engineering
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Information Security professional with a Master's in Information Security and a Bachelor's in Computer Science. I currently work as a System Administrator, managing backend infrastructure, Debian Linux servers, and security protocols for a Freedom of Information platform. With over 3 years of experience in technical support and quality analysis, I combine hands-on skills in ISO 27001/NIST compliance, threat detection, and cloud security. I actively build enterprise-grade home labs involving Active Directory, pfSense, and automation scripts to stay sharp in defensive and infrastructure operations.
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A virtual SOC environment leveraging Splunk, Wireshark, and Kali Linux to practice threat detection, incident response, and log analysis. This project demonstrates hands-on cybersecurity skills and a practical approach to network and system security.
A Python-based tool developed for my master's thesis to detect misconfigurations in AWS IAM, S3, EC2, and VPC using the Boto3 SDK. It maps issues to DORA compliance standards, and automates cloud security audits for financial environments.
A Chrome extension that cleans up YouTube, hides Shorts & Members-only content, restores dislike counts, sets your preferred video quality automatically, and enables Picture-in-Picture with a keyboard shortcut Alt+P. Read the security thinking behind why I built it on my blog.
A fully virtualized enterprise network simulating real-world infrastructure. Features a segmented LAN/WAN environment secured by pfSense (with Suricata IDS/IPS), Active Directory on Windows Server 2022 for IAM, and Linux/Windows interoperability. Managed via PowerShell and Bash automation scripts.
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