Mohammad Alhulani

MohammadAlhulani

First-Class Cyber Security & Digital Forensics graduate

Aspiring penetration tester,London,open to junior roles

about

About

Portrait of Mohammad Alhulani in a dark suit and tie, arms folded

I graduated with a First-Class BSc in Cyber Security & Digital Forensics from Kingston University London. I am working towards my first role as a junior penetration tester.

I practise on TryHackMe, working on both SOC investigations and offensive labs, and I run a small home lab with virtual machines for security testing. I want to join a team where I can learn from experienced testers.

projects

Projects

Things I have built and what I am working on now.

All projects
The finished device: a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH in a black aluminium case with a small OLED screen on top, connected through a USB hub to a silver USB drive

Portable Data Encryption Device

A Raspberry Pi device that keeps a USB drive encrypted, with nothing to install on the computer. My final-year project.

  • Raspberry Pi
  • Python
  • LUKS2
  • AES-256-XTS
  • Argon2
  • cryptsetup
  • Linux

In progress

Honeypot Lab

Setting up a honeypot on a separate cloud server to capture and study real attack attempts.

  • T-Pot
  • Cowrie
  • Elastic / Kibana
  • Linux
experience

Education and experience

  1. 2023 to 2026

    BSc (Hons) Cyber Security & Digital Forensics, First-Class Honours

    Kingston University London

    Relevant modules

    • Ethical Hacking
    • Cryptography and Network Security
    • Threat Hunting Analysis and Mitigation
    • Networking Concepts
    • Internet Protocols and Services
    • Cyber Crime and Digital Forensics

  2. July to August 2024

    IT Support Analyst Intern

    Legal 500 / International Arbitration Centre, London

    • Logged, prioritised and escalated user tickets.
    • Found the root cause of hardware, software and server faults.
    • Enrolled devices in MDM and supported Microsoft Azure administration.

  3. August to September 2021

    Technical Helper

    The American School in London

    • Imaged and configured laptops and deployed updates.
    • Managed IP addressing and fixed access point and subnet issues.
skills

Skills

Security operations
  • Splunk SIEM
  • Log analysis
  • Incident investigation
  • Digital forensics
  • Hashing
  • Cryptography
Penetration testing
  • Nmap
  • Burp Suite
  • Metasploit
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Enumeration
Systems and cloud
  • Active Directory
  • Windows
  • Linux (Ubuntu, Kali, Parrot OS)
  • PowerShell
  • Microsoft Azure
  • MDM
  • Virtual machines
Networking
  • TCP/IP
  • UDP
  • DNS
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • IP addressing
  • Subnets
  • Cisco Packet Tracer
Programming
  • Python
  • Bash
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Basic Java
  • Basic JavaScript
certificates

Certificates

Security and technical

In progress

CompTIA Tech+

Netcom Training

Earned

Couch to Coder - Python

Bright Network Academy

September 2023

Leadership

Earned

Leader Coach Programme

CIRCL, recognised by the Association for Coaching

July 2021

Earned

One to One Future Leaders Programme

July 2021

writeups

Latest write-ups

Notes from labs and challenges: what I did and what I learned.

All write-ups

How I approach a room

  1. Look

    Reconnaissance: find what is there

    I start by finding out what is running, without touching anything.

  2. Map

    Enumeration: services, versions, entry points

    I list every service and version to find possible ways in.

  3. Test

    Exploitation: try safe, controlled attacks

    I try controlled attacks, only in legal lab environments.

  4. Learn

    Lessons: what worked and how to defend it

    I write down what worked and how a defender could stop it.

contact

Contact

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