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Hussein Dheyaa

SOC Analyst · Threat Hunter · Incident Responder

Degree
B.E. Cybersecurity — Middle Technical University
College
Electrical and Electronic Technology
Location
Baghdad, Iraq
Focus
Alert triage, DFIR, threat hunting, CTF design
Stack
Splunk · Elastic · Snort · ATT&CK · Kali · Docker
GPA
4.0 — 95%

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01 — whoami

Summary

Blue team analyst with hands-on experience triaging alerts in Splunk and running investigations in ELK/Kibana. I came to defense from the offensive side — a couple of years of CTF work in web exploitation, cryptography, and reverse engineering — so I tend to read an alert by asking how I would have caused it. Comfortable working in Kali and Docker, with ongoing practical training in DFIR and threat hunting. I also build CTF challenges, not just solve them.

02 — field work

Experience

  1. Trainee

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    Ministry of Interior — Cybersecurity Directorate · Baghdad, Iraq

    • Placed 1st out of 1200 participants in the programme’s final Capture The Flag competition. announcement
    • Network security fundamentals: TCP/IP analysis, packet inspection with Wireshark, and firewall configuration.
    • System hardening for Linux and Windows: access control, service reduction, and logging.
    • Offensive and defensive techniques: reconnaissance and exploitation with Nmap and Metasploit, incident response, and digital forensics.

  2. Security Researcher Internship

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    Middle Technical University — Cybersecurity Engineering Department · Baghdad, Iraq

    • Network assessments: packet inspection, traffic analysis, firewall configuration.
    • Hardened Linux and Windows systems using Wireshark, Nmap, and Metasploit.
    • Automated routine security and network scanning tasks with Python.

  3. B.E. in Cybersecurity

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    Middle Technical University — College of Electrical and Electronic Technology · Baghdad, Iraq

    • Coursework: Network Defense, Digital Forensics, Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing, Cybersecurity Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Web Applications Security.
    • GPA 4.0 — grade A (95%).

03 — verified

Certifications

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04 — toolkit

Skills

Languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • C / C++

Blue Team

  • Splunk
  • Elastic / Kibana
  • Snort
  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • Wireshark
  • DFIR

Red Team

  • Nmap
  • Burp Suite
  • Metasploit
  • Web Exploitation
  • Cryptography
  • Reverse Engineering

AI Security

  • Prompt Injection
  • LLM Jailbreaking

Platform

  • Kali Linux
  • Docker
  • Windows Hardening

05 — build log

Projects

06 — establish connection

Contact

Baghdad, Iraq · +964 776 178 1031