Tools & Technology

Virtualization & Infrastructure

• VirtualBox (VM creation, networking, segmentation)

• Windows 11 Pro VM

• Windows Server 2025 VM (Active Directory, Group Policy)

• Ubuntu Linux VM

• Kali Linux VM

• Parrot OS VM

Network Security & Firewalls

• pfSense Firewall (WAN/LAN rules, NAT, VLANs, segmentation)

• OpenVPN / VPN Configuration

• Wireshark (packet capture & analysis)

• Nmap (recon scans, service enumeration)

Security Monitoring & SIEM

• Wazuh Manager (Ubuntu)

• Wazuh Agent (Windows & Linux endpoint monitoring)

• Splunk Enterprise (dashboards, log correlation, alerts)

Vulnerability Management

• Tenable Nessus Essentials

• VulnHub VMs (Basic Pentesting 1, walkthrough labs)

Threat Intelligence & Analysis

• IBM X-Force Exchange

• IBM QRadar (intro TI practice)

• Open-source feeds & intelligence techniques

Web/API Security & Encryption

• OWASP Juice Shop (SQLi, XSS demos)

• OWASP ModSecurity WAF

• Docker (running security API containers)

• Flask API (tokenization, data masking)

• OpenSSL (TLS/PKI certificate lab)

Operating System Security

• Linux CLI (log review, user management, malware removal steps)

• Windows PowerShell / CMD (log review, hardening tasks)

• Active Directory (password policies, OU setup)

Incident Response & Forensics

• Syslog / Event Viewer

• Wazuh SIEM alerts

• Splunk log investigations

Development & Automation

• Python (tokenization script)

• Git / GitHub (lab documentation)

Cloud Security

• AWS Security labs (IAM, logging, basic cloud security concepts)