🎓 B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering — PDEU, Gandhinagar (2027)
🔵 Role Focus : SOC Analyst (Tier 1/2) · Blue Team Operations · GRC · Digital Forensics
🏠 Home Lab : Active — simulating and defending real-world attacks in a controlled environment
🌍 Location : Gujarat, India
📬 Contact : panthpsp@gmail.com
I'm a defensive-security oriented undergraduate who believes the best way to learn protection is to understand how attacks actually work. My home lab is where theory meets practice — log analysis, alert triage, malware investigation, and more.
This is where I break things, defend them, and document everything.
| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Hypervisor | VirtualBox / Proxmox / VMware Workstation |
| Network topology | Isolated LAN with pfSense firewall between attacker and target segments |
| SIEM / Log platform | Splunk Free / Wazuh / ELK Stack |
| Attacker machine | Kali Linux 2024 |
| Target machines | Windows Server 2019, Ubuntu 22.04, Metasploitable |
What I practice in the lab:
- 🔍 Log analysis and alert triage (Windows Event Logs, Syslog)
- 🦠 Basic malware analysis — static & dynamic — in an isolated sandbox
- 📧 Phishing email investigation and header analysis
- 🔐 Cryptographic concepts — hashing, asymmetric encryption, PKI basics
- 📋 GRC exercises — writing security policies, risk registers, basic compliance mapping
Working knowledge of:
NIST CSF·ISO/IEC 27001·
| Status | Certification / Course | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ Completed | Ethical hacking | NPTEL |
| ✅ Completed | Cisco Introduction to Cybersecurity | Cisco NetAcad |
| 📅 Planned | CompTIA Security+, COMPTIA Network+ ,CEH ,OSCP | — |
DEFENSIVE SECURITY DIGITAL FORENSICS GRC
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✦ SOC operations ✦ Disk forensics ✦ Risk assessment
✦ SIEM & log analysis ✦ Memory forensics ✦ Security policies
✦ Incident response ✦ Malware triage ✦ Compliance mapping
✦ Threat hunting ✦ Disk recovery ✦ [NIST / ISO 27001]
✦ IDS/IPS monitoring
CRYPTOGRAPHY NETWORKING
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✦ Symmetric / Asymmetric ✦ Packet analysis (L2–L7)
✦ Hashing & integrity ✦ TCP/IP & OSI model
✦ PKI & certificates ✦ Firewall & IDS config
✦ TLS, VPN
Built with intent — not just caffeine