To Be A CyberMan: What I have Done Within A Year (Sep2019-Sep2020)

To Be A CyberMan: What I have Done Within A Year (Sep2019-Sep2020)


        


Language Skills

1. Completed ESL 7-8 Level course

2. Made 3 public speeches, Achieved "the best speaker" 2 times in Toastmaster

 

Personal Development

1. Completed some Cybersecurity online training courses

    a. Sans Cyber Aces Online 

    b. Culturelink's Cybersecurity Training Program: CSX CyberSecurity Fundamental

    c. Fortinet NSE 1, 2, 4and 5Network Security Associate online Training

    d. Palo Alto Networks Online Course

        i. Introduction to Cybersecurity (EDU-010)

        ii. Firewall 9.0 Essentials: Configuration and Management (EDU-110)

        iii. Cybersecurity Skills Practice Lab

    e. Qualys Training

        i. Vulnerability Management

        ii. Advanced Scanning

    f. Cybrary course

        i. pfSense: Installing and Configuring the Firewall

        ii. Vmware Foundations

    g. EDX course

        i. Microsoft IT Support: Cloud Fundamentals

    h. Splunk Fundamentals 1

2. Got some certificates

    a. Fortinet Network Security Expert Certification NSE 1

    b. Fortinet Network Security Expert Certification NSE 2

    c. Qualys Certified Specialist(Qualys VM)                                                                            

    d. Qualys Certified Specialist (Qualys SSBP)

    e. CSX Cybersecurity Fundamental(ISACA)  

                                                                                                               

3. Running the tech blog

    a. 19 posts(2020.08.28)

    b. 1316 visits(2020.08.28)

    c. The highest one has 637 visits

 

4. Running the GitHub

     Does not pay to much attention, will try to update weekly in the next coming year.

 

5. Running the CyberRookie Leaning Project

     I am the only member for now. Will try to the public it next coming year.

    a. Created CyberRookie Project Learning Path V1.0

    b. Created CyberRookie Project Learning Plan V1.0

    c. Created Cyber Skill Tree V1.0

    d. Completed the CyberRookie Leaning Project

 

 6. Built a Cybersecurity home lab

 

Career Development(For my company)

1. Deployed some Cybersecurity Solutions

    a. A cybersecurity LAB Building Proposal

    b. Deployed ESET endpoint security solution for company wild users

    c. Deployed the Qualys VM solution

    d. Deployed Azure Environment(Initial S2S VPN setting/Network/VM) 

 

2. Managing/Monitoring all the cybersecurity platforms

    a. Hardware/software inventory and control 

    b. Continuous vulnerability management

        Only done the scanning part, need to do remediation part as well.

    c. Firewall

    d. Email protection

    f. Endpoint Security

    g. Account Mentoring and control

    h. Log Analysis

    i. WSUS

    g. AD GROUP Policy

 

3. Introduced/tested some Cyber platforms

    a. Splunk SIEM solution

    b. Thinscale Secure remote worker

    c. Okta Online SSO solution

    d. Monitoring/logging system

    f. Fortinet/FortiGate/Forti Analyzer/Forti Manager

 

4. Documentations

    a. IT-Help Documentation

b. Made some of The IT best practices/Guides

    c. Made Some of Cybersecurity deployment project management documentations

        i. Eset

        ii. Qualys

    d. Made some of SOPs, best practices, and Instruments 

 

5. Provided some Tech/Cybersecurity training for my teams

 

6. Done some Audits

 

 

The goals for next Year(Sep2020-Sep2021)

1. Defensive site

    a. Monitoring/Logging tool(SolarWinds/ELK/Splunk)

    b. 0365 Security/Protection(RBAC/Email protection/ATP)

    c. Azure portal(Security control/Azure Mentoring/backup solution )

 

2. offensive site

    a. HackTheBox

    b. OSCP

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