{"id":483,"date":"2025-12-10T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/?page_id=483"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:56:35","slug":"home-base","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-9aa3bd7dbf15e6c5780824e76d5d2daa\">Hello, my name is Brandon Zakaras, and this is my eportfolio. As of now, I am a Graduate Student in the School of Cybersecurity at Old Dominion University. I obtained my Bachelor&#8217;s of Science in Cybersecurity with a Minor in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in 2021 and went directly into the Graduate program. I work as a Graduate Teaching Assistant during the school year, and work on earning additional certifications over the summer. As of right now, I have the CompTIA Security+ and Google Cybersecurity Certification, and am actively studying for the Pentest+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and SecAI+ certifications. I have over 7 years of experience, starting from my junior year in high school until now.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Please, take a look around and see what you think! If you would like to learn more about my past and who I am, please take a look at my <strong>About Me <\/strong>page. If not, I have a section dedicated to the <strong>Core Knowledge <\/strong>I learned in this course. If neither of those interest you, please take a look at my <strong>Project Showcase<\/strong>, or<strong> Learning Reflections<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/about-me\/\">About Me<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/core-knowledge\/\">Core Knowledge<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/project-showcase\/\">Project Showcase<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/learning-reflections\/\">Learning Reflections<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26005\/2025\/12\/Picture-of-Me.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-484\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26005\/2025\/12\/Picture-of-Me.jpg 471w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26005\/2025\/12\/Picture-of-Me-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Brandon Zakaras, and this is my eportfolio. As of now, I am a Graduate Student in the School of Cybersecurity at Old Dominion University. I obtained my Bachelor&#8217;s of Science in Cybersecurity with a Minor in Computer Science from Old Dominion University in 2021 and went directly into the Graduate program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21845,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/brandon-zakaras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}