Cybersecurity Portfolio

Snapshot

I am currently an IT specialist looking for a transition into the cybersecurity industry.

• Core skills: SIEM, DFIR, alert triage, threat hunting.
• Tools: Splunk/Wazuh, Suricata, Flare, Remnux.
• Certs: Security+, CYSA+
• Clearance: Secret

What I Do

SOC, Incident response, Security analyst, Threat hunter, Threat researcher.

Lab Overview

My homelab is built as a hands-on cybersecurity playground where I can safely test, break, and learn. I run Proxmox as my virtualization platform to spin up and manage multiple isolated VMs efficiently, which lets me recreate real-world environments on demand. At the network edge I use IPFire as my firewall to segment traffic and keep lab activity contained, while still giving me control over routing and access policies. Inside the lab, I maintain dedicated forensics and malware analysis machines for investigating suspicious files and practicing analysis workflows in a controlled setting. I also host an Active Directory environment to experiment with authentication, domain administration, and common attack paths—giving me a realistic space to practice techniques, validate defenses, and improve my understanding of enterprise security. I also run a few other servers that run my detection and monitoring systems such as Wazuh being my SIEM to centralize logs from all of these different sources into one place where I can practice my threat hunting operations and detection rules. All of this is running off of 6 dell optiplexes and a ProtectCLI device to run IPFIRE as a router/firewall solution.

Featured Builds

Highlights

• Web: auth bypass, SSRF, deserialization, logic flaws
• Pwn: stack basics, ROP, heap fundamentals
• Crypto: RSA pitfalls, encoding, randomness issues
• Forensics: PCAP triage, file carving, memory artifacts

Recent Events

Links

• Email: achoquette@cyberchainsaw.org
• GitHub: github.com/cyberchainsaw
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aidan-choquette-6a16b6269