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Rajat ManiSecurity Analyst

Cybersecurity & IT graduate with hands-on experience in SIEM, PKI, incident response, Active Directory, and networking — built through academic projects, cybersecurity simulations, and a homelab that never really finishes. Seeking an entry-level SOC / Cybersecurity Analyst, IT Support, or Systems Administrator role.

Skills

Security & Monitoring
SIEM (Splunk, Wazuh) IDS/IPS Vulnerability Mgmt Incident Response Threat Detection Digital Forensics Risk Assessment
Systems & Cloud
Windows Server Active Directory DNS/DHCP Windows 10/11 Linux AWS
Networking
TCP/IP LAN/WAN Firewall Mgmt Network Troubleshooting
Tools
Nmap Metasploit Wireshark Nessus VMware Workstation Microsoft 365
Frameworks
ITIL Business Continuity Planning Disaster Recovery Planning Compliance Fundamentals

Analyst Stats

0yr
In the field
0h
HTB Machines

Projects

Secure Document Transmission System
Academic team project — simulated banking environment
TLS · PKI · X.509 · OpenSSL · RSA/ECDSA · AES · VMware · Linux
  • Multi-VM system across client, web server, CA, and CRL server to mirror real enterprise infrastructure.
  • Built and operated a PKI to issue, manage, and revoke X.509 certificates, incl. CRL distribution.
  • Server-side checks for signature validity, trust chains, expiration, and revocation before acceptance.
  • Configured HTTPS over TLS with certificate-based auth and approved cryptographic algorithms.

Homelab

VMware cybersecurity homelab · ongoing

Virtual Experience

Cybersecurity Job Simulations
Forage · 3 sims completed
Commonwealth Bank · AIG · Tata Consultancy Services · Datacom
  • Investigated simulated incidents, ran risk assessments, documented remediation.
  • Built fraud detection dashboards in Splunk; analyzed logs for incident response.
  • Applied IAM principles, researched CISA advisories, scripted a Python ethical-hacking exercise.

Contact

hi@rajatmani.com Email
linkedin.com/in/rajatmani LinkedIn

See Also

Trust, but verify. en.wikipedia.org — trust, but verify