Aspiring cybersecurity professional (JMU CIS, cybersecurity concentration, May 2026) working toward cloud security engineering. This is my working portfolio: hands-on labs, study progress, and projects.
📍 Currently: studying for CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) · building a SOC/Active Directory home lab 🎯 Target: SOC / security analyst → cloud security engineer
Applied security work from my coursework (CIS 425) — offensive and defensive.
| Lab | Focus | Skills demonstrated |
|---|---|---|
| Keylogger | Malware / credential theft | Threat analysis, endpoint defense, MFA |
| Phishing Email | Social engineering | Lure construction, detection, IPS |
| Metasploit + SET | Exploitation framework | Attack chaining, EDR, incident response |
| PGP Encryption | Cryptography | Hybrid crypto, digital signatures, PKI |
| DDoS | Availability attacks | Attack types, WAF, CDN mitigation |
| Vulnerability Assessment | Vuln management | Scanning, triage, remediation |
🔨 In progress: SOC + Active Directory home lab — Wazuh SIEM + Suricata IDS detecting simulated attacks from Kali across a Windows AD domain.
Measured, self-paced progress through all 120 SY0-701 topics (auto-tracked from my study app).
- Topics passed: 105 / 120 · Average mastery: 89%
- Domain 1 — General Security Concepts: 17/18 (91%)
- Domain 2 — Threats, Vulnerabilities & Mitigations: 38/38 (90%) ✅ complete
- Domain 3 — Security Architecture: 4/18 (87%)
- Domain 4 — Security Operations: 29/29 (87%) ✅ complete
- Domain 5 — Security Program Management & Oversight: 17/17 (90%) ✅ complete
See Skills by Domain for what I can do, and the live Progress Dashboard.
Security: Wazuh · Suricata · Metasploit · SET · Nmap · Nessus/vuln scanners · PGP · Kali Linux Systems: Windows / Active Directory · Linux · networking fundamentals Dev: Python · Node.js · JavaScript · Bash · Git
- Security+ Study App — a full-stack study app I built (Next.js) that generates AI-powered study guides and adaptive quizzes across all Sec+ domains, with weak-area tracking and progress analytics.
- Job Search Agent System — an autonomous multi-agent system (Python) that automates job searching, analysis, resume tailoring, and outreach using Claude AI. Built with a scout/analyst/tailor/outreach agent architecture and an orchestration layer.
- Discord Admin Bot — an AI-powered Discord bot that manages servers via natural-language commands, using Claude tool-use to create channels, roles, and permissions.
- SOC / AD Home Lab — Wazuh SIEM + Suricata IDS detecting simulated attacks from Kali across a Windows Active Directory domain. (in progress)
- GitHub: brimblenot
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-thomas-kaiser/
- Email: sam.kaiser7@outlook.com