While I'm thrilled to be employed at a job that I love- thank you Evan, Cat, and the community- I need to keep my skills up and learn new ones if I'm going to continue to grow. I asked ChatGPT to assign me 5 tasks in AWS, so that I can better understand it. Here is what I learned (yes, I used ChatGPT to summarize): Cloud Application Demo (AWS Serverless Architecture) Technologies: AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, AWS CloudWatch - Designed and deployed a lightweight serverless application using AWS core services, demonstrating end-to-end cloud architecture - Built and tested a Python-based Lambda function to process events and return structured responses - Created and managed an S3 bucket for cloud-based object storage and static asset hosting - Implemented a DynamoDB NoSQL table to store and retrieve structured data (e.g., user records) - Provisioned and managed an EC2 virtual machine, including secure key pair generation and lifecycle management (launch, stop, terminate) - Monitored system activity and debugged executions using CloudWatch logs and metrics - Applied cost-control best practices by leveraging AWS Free Tier resources and shutting down compute services to prevent unnecessary charges

In order to get ready for real world networking what should I practice on these Network Devices: - 2x Cisco 1841 - 2x Cisco 2960 48 port - 1x Cisco 1811 - 2x raspberry pi 3 - One old laptop I would like to listen to everyone’s advice pls 🙂 edit: I do have a PDU, Console Cables, power cables

I've recently been putting time into projects and labs. I started small with a packet sniffer using scapy then ramped it up with a SOC dashboard using Streamlit both built in pure python. You can see my post about these and if you ever get stuck i'll happily help you all out. BUT... this for me has been a real win. This is my home lab to begin the real SOC projects. I've got: Windows Victim: To simulate a target to be attacked. Kali Attacker: To Simulate an attacker Wazuh: This monitors it all and brings it together.

1. Simple Sniffer build completely in PY. A lightweight Python based network packet sniffer built with Scapy that monitors live traffic and provides real-time alerts for suspicious activity. 2. SOC Analyst Dashboard Using PY & Streamlit.

My first lab. done!