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jsmith-sec/README.md

Josh Smith

Cybersecurity Graduate | CompTIA Security+

B.A.T. Cybersecurity, Collin College — May 2026

Home SOC Lab Series

Six hands-on labs built on Apple Silicon with a focus on detection, incident response, and threat analysis. Each lab simulates real-world scenarios using industry-standard tooling.

# Lab Focus Repo
1 SOC/SIEM Detection ELK Stack, log ingestion, alert tuning soc-home-lab
2 Incident Response Simulation IR workflow, timeline reconstruction, forensic reporting incident-response-lab
3 Web Application Attack Attack simulation, log analysis, detection rules web-app-attack-lab
4 Vulnerability Assessment Greenbone/GVM scanning, risk prioritization vulnerability-assessment-lab
5 Malware Analysis Static analysis, PE imports, sandbox evasion documentation malware-analysis-lab
6 Phishing Analysis URL analysis, email header analysis, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, campaign correlation phishing-analysis-lab

Skills

SIEM Log Analysis Threat Detection Malware Analysis Incident Response Vulnerability Assessment Digital Forensics Chain of Custody Phishing Analysis Email Header Analysis MITRE ATT&CK NIST SP 800-61
Linux Python SQL Networking Wireshark Splunk PEStudio AWS Azure

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+

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