Cybersecurity Student • Aspiring SOC Analyst

Mutaz Almehmadi

Building skills in Blue Team, Threat Detection, and Incident Response.

I am a cybersecurity student focused on defensive security, SOC operations, log analysis, and hands-on security labs.

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Cybersecurity Student @ Umm AL-Qura University

About Me

I am a cybersecurity student with a strong interest in Security Operations Centers (SOC), defensive security, threat detection, and incident response. I am currently building hands-on experience through home labs, security projects, and professional certifications.

My goal is to become a SOC Analyst and continue improving my skills in log analysis, Threat Detection, endpoint monitoring, and real world incident investigation.

Skills

🛡️ Security Operations

SIEM
Incident Response
Threat Detection

📊 Monitoring & Analysis

Network Security Monitoring
Log Analysis
Vulnerability Assessment

⚡ Security Tools

ELK Stack
Splunk
Wireshark
Snort

🎯 Offensive Security

Penetration Testing

Certifications

CompTIA Security+

Core cybersecurity concepts, network security, risk management, and security operations.

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Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT)

Assessment Methodologies, Host & Networking Penetration Testing, Host & Networking Auditing.

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CompTIA CySA+

Security analytics, threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response.

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TryHackMe SOC Level 1

Security analysts, Alert triage, Cyber defence frameworks, Detecting threats, SIEM.

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Projects

SOC Detection Lab using Elastic Stack

Technologies: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Winlogbeat, Sysmon, VMware, Kali Linux, Windows 11, Ubuntu

  • Built a SOC home lab with three virtual machines (Kali Linux, Windows 11, and Ubuntu hosting the Elastic Stack).
  • Configured Sysmon and Winlogbeat to collect and forward Windows security logs to Elasticsearch for centralized monitoring.
  • Simulated an RDP brute-force attack from Kali Linux and validated end-to-end detection in Kibana.
  • Built dashboards visualizing both baseline system activity and live attack detection.
  • Documenting each phase from a Blue Team perspective — log collection, attack simulation, and (in progress) detection alerting.
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Cybersecurity Training Simulator

Developed an offline cybersecurity training simulator using Unity/Unreal Engine and Docker containers. The platform provides realistic Red Team and Blue Team scenarios for hands-on cybersecurity training and skill development.

  • Red Team and Blue Team simulations
  • Phishing and ransomware scenarios
  • Social engineering challenges
  • Incident response training
  • Docker-based isolated environments
  • RBAC access control implementation
  • AES-256 encryption integration
  • Security logging and monitoring
  • AI-based performance evaluation

Contact

For professional contact, please use LinkedIn, GitHub, or email.

LinkedIn moatazalharbi32@gmail.com
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