Cyber Security Analyst

Constantly Studying

Hello! My name is Aaron I. Desmarais, but you can call me Isiac. I am 20 years old. I am enlisted in the Tennessee Army National Guard, where I am a Cyber Operations Specialist. I enlisted back in July of 2020 and have since gone through training at Fort Gordon, GA and, happily, joined my unit. Now I work at an MSSP as a SOC Analyst I, hoping to become a platform engineer by the end of 2023.

What I’m working on

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SOVA v1
Python

SOVA is my own personal assistant AI written in Python. They are able to search Google, pull up YouTube videos that you request, grab top news articles of the country, open MY most used apps, and much more.

Projects

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TryHackMe

I am constantly on TryHackMe in order to learn as much as possible. I'm currently working on the Splunk 2 room to better my knowledge of the Splunk GUI.

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HackTheBox

I use HackTheBox to better my understanding of both Offensive and Defensive capabilities. It also helps keep me from losing any of my other skills that I have learned through the past couple of years.

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Old Brick Break

This was a game that I made back in 2019. It's written in Java, so not my favorite language but I'm proud of where I started and where I am now.

Experience

Cyber Operations Specialist
Army National Guard, Cyber Operations Specialist
Nashville, TN | July, 2020 - July, 2023

Army 175th CPT Det 2, Nashville, TN 2020 – Present Specialist - 17C Cyber Operations Specialist

  • Network Security Routing and Switching (CISCO, VYOS)
  • Offensive Cyber Operations (SSH/RDP Tunneling)
  • Defense Cyber Operations (IDS, IPS)
  • Threat Hunting (Cyber Chef, YARA)
  • Programming (Bash, Python, Powershell, C++)
  • Windows System Architecture (System Internals Tools)
  • Linux System Architecture
  • Reverse Engineering (Ghidra, x64dbg)
  • Malware Analysis (ProcMon, IDA Pro)
  • Social Engineering (SEToolKit)
  • Wireless and Wired Network Fundamentals (Packet Crafting via Scapy)
  • OSI Model, TCP/IP Model
  • Operating Systems (Windows XP-10, Ubuntu-Kali)
  • Vulnerability Assessments - Penetration Testing and Network Defense
  • Security Onion (ELK Stack, The Hive)
  • Splunk, Wireshark, TCPDump

Certifications

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None

Badges & Skills

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Data Visualization Using Python
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Applied Data Science with Python - Level 2
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Data Analysis Using Python
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Building Cloud-Native and Multicloud Applications
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Education

Cyber Center of Excellence
Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA June, 2021 - May, 2022

17C/Cyber Operation Specialist Course, Fort Gordon, GA Phase 1 and Phase 2