Below are a list of skills I view as essential to my abilities and that I have developed in my course of study. Each skill is accompanied by 3 artifacts that demonstrate the skill.

Analytical Thinking:

• A paper I wrote for my Basic Cybersecurity Programming and Networking course that analyzes and evaluate the effectiveness and risks of AI-powered cybersecurity systems

• An evaluation of The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan written for my Cyber Policy course

• An ethical view of “vibe coding” seen through the Kantian perspective

Ethical Hacking/Penetration Testing:

• Using tools within linux I created varying levels of password complexity and attempted to crack them

• Used reconnoissance tools to find active and open ports to determine best attack vector

• Hid and subsequently found imbedded text within an image using steganography

Network Security:

• Completed a course along with extracurricular studying to earn my CompTIA Security+ certification

• Used network traffic tools such as Wireshark to analyze traffic and discover unencrypted data

• Acted as an attacker to identify the vulnerabilities in the LAN network and also as a defender to apply proper countermeasures