π‘οΈ SOC Analyst with hands-on experience in security monitoring, alert triage, incident response, log and network traffic analysis, phishing analysis, and digital forensics. Ranked Grandmaster on HackTheBox and TryHackMe, all-time #1 in Azerbaijan on TryHackMe, and top 1% globally across cybersecurity platforms. Holds a Bachelorβs degree in Information Technology from UNEC with practical certifications including BTL1, AI1, SEC1, CRTA, AD-RTS, and has completed HackTheBox CPTS, CWES, CDSA job role paths. Built MITRE ATT&CK-mapped SOC detection labs, a static & dynamic malware analysis lab and an AI-driven SOAR workflow
π΅ AI SOC Copilot
n8n + Wazuh + Gemini AI + Threat Intelligence (VirusTotal, URLScan, AbuseIPDB, MalwareBazaar) β automated Wazuh alert triage and phishing & attachment analysis AI-generated structured verdicts with deterministic guard rails, MITRE-aware context and HTML incident reports delivered to the analyst's inbox Attack simulation with Atomic Red Team β n8n in Docker + Wazuh VM
Isolated FLARE-VM lab (VMware) + Black Basta ransomware sample β static analysis (pestudio, FLOSS, capa, PE-bear), VirusTotal threat intelligence and dynamic analysis (Procmon, Regshot, FakeNet-NG) MITRE ATT&CK mapping, IOC extraction and detection engineering with 22 YARA rules, Sigma rules and KQL hunting queries
Azure VM (honeypot) + Microsoft Sentinel + Microsoft Defender for Endpoint + Kali Linux (adversary) β RDP brute-force with Hydra and MITRE ATT&CK-mapped simulation with Atomic Red Team, KQL threat hunting and full incident investigation in Defender & Sentinel
Ubuntu Server + Apache2 + ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Filebeat) Attack simulation with Kali Linux β Nmap, Gobuster, Nikto, SQL Injection via curl Full log ingestion, threat detection and analysis in Kibana Discover
π΅ SOC Home Lab
Wazuh SIEM/XDR + pfSense Firewall + Windows 11 Enterprise (target) + Kali Linux (adversary) Threat detection, incident response and security monitoring in a fully isolated virtual environment
π΅ SOC Honeypot Lab
Cowrie SSH Honeypot on Rocky Linux + Splunk SIEM Brute-force simulation with Hydra, real-time attacker behavior analysis and log investigation



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