Cyber Security Engineering

Paul Tran ****.*******@*****.***

Centreville, VA 571-***-****

Education

B.S. Cyber Security Engineering, George Mason University August 2019 - December 2023 GPA: 3.58

CompTIA Security+ 701 Certification April 2024

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification July 2023

Industry Experience

Elasticsearch Anomaly Detection, George Mason University Aug. 2021 - May 2022

Led a team by coordinating meeting schedules, writing weekly reports, assigning roles, tasks, and ensuring that deadlines were met.

Developed Kibana dashboards to aggregate SSH login activities and server logs for George Mason University.

Configured Kibana dashboards to automate monitoring and alerts on SSH logins, login volume, and suspicious attempted login from outside the country.

Analyzed server traffic and timestamps to detect activity spikes, pinpoint network degradation sources, leveraged ElastAlert for real-time risk notifications.

Crafted a risk table for George Mason that guided actions based on identified threats, and enhanced dashboard alerts for rapid incident response.

Personal Projects

Splunk Server Linux March - Ongoing

Installed and configured a server running CentOS7.

Connect network interface to the internet and installed software packages.

Managed user accounts by creating local users and assign them to administrative groups.

Utilized Splunk Enterprise software to install Splunk onto Linux server.

Implemented a Splunk indexer cluster by enabling the manager node and the peer nodes.

Implemented the search head cluster.

Enabled SSL on Splunk.

Downloaded the Universal Forwarder software and installed it on Linux server. Configured it to send Splunk internal logs to indexer cluster.

RSA Encryption and Decryption Project Linux Feb. 2024

Developed a Python-based simulation of the RSA encryption with ”Pycryptodome” to demonstrate the principles of public-key cryptography.

Developed a program to generate key pairs (public and private keys) with python.

Encrypt / decrypt messages with the keys.

Attribute-Based Encryption Linux (Asymmetric encryption tool) June 2024

Installed a software package on Ubuntu 20.04 called ”cpabe toolkit”.

Encrypted documents to prevent malicious access and to create an environment that carries out the principle of least privilege.

Reverse Engineering Water Gun March 2023

Led a team by assigning roles for the project, managing the group budget, and setting up meetings.

Learn the basics of reverse engineering through a hands on project.

Integrated attachments into the water gun.

Drone Exploration Linux December 2022

Utilized Wireshark and a wireless adapter to discover devices communicating with a DJI drone.

Implemented python scripts from GitHub to command the drones.

Extracted data from the drone through Wireshark. (Capture the flag) Technical Skills

Technologies: Linux (CentOS, Kali, Ubuntu), Wireshark, nmap, Virtual Machines, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch (Kibana), Splunk, Python, Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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