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John Leigh Samson

IT Practitioner

// about

I'm an IT Practitioner quietly working my way through the blue team side of things

Still learning. Hands-on when possible. I prefer understanding things deeply over moving fast.

Long-term goal: remote SOC analyst work. Currently building skills through TryHackMe, real-world incident study, and personal lab setups.

// certifications
Google Cybersecurity Professional
Fortinet Certified Associate
Security Blue Team — Junior SOC Analyst
Cisco Cyber Defense Analyst
IBM — GRC & Data Privacy
IBM — Vulnerability Management
IBM — System & Network Security
TryHackMe Pre-Security Path
// projects
Mobile Forensics Analysis
Ran MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) on an iPhone 11 and Samsung Galaxy A50. Triaged IOCs, separated false positives from telecom telemetry, documented findings.
MVT MITRE ATT&CK T1426 T1512 iOS · Android
Passive Wi-Fi Reconnaissance
Performed passive recon on own WPA3-SAE network. Zero client exposure, no handshake captured. Documented defensive posture and applicable mitigations.
Wireshark T1040 T1046 WPA3-SAE
Parrot OS Hardening Lab
Personal workstation hardened with full disk encryption, GRUB password, UFW firewall, Wazuh SIEM, Mullvad WireGuard VPN.
Parrot OS Wazuh UFW WireGuard
// tools & stack
Others & the ff. Hydra Hashcat Johnny-Jumbo aircrack-ng LinuxCLI Splunk, Wazuh WindowsCLI, Powershell Cryptography tcpdump, tshark
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