I'm a cybersecurity student focused on offensive security and network defense, building hands-on expertise through home lab projects and CTF challenges.
- 🔭 Currently building: SOC home lab with Splunk/ELK integration
- 🛡️ Focus: Web Application Pentesting · Network Security · IDS/IPS
- 🎯 Goal: SOC Analyst / Junior Penetration Tester role
- 📚 Studying: CompTIA Security+ | eJPT / CEH path | RHSCA EX200
- 🌍 Based in: Gujarat, India
Offensive Security
Network & Infrastructure
Languages & Operating Systems
Frameworks & Methodologies
DVWA on Metasploitable 2 · 9 vulnerabilities found · Professional pentest report
- Manual SQLi, Reflected & Stored XSS, auth bypass, session hijacking
- Full attack chain: Stored XSS → cookie theft → session hijack → SQLi → DB dump
- Tools: Burp Suite · SQLMap · Hydra · OWASP ZAP · Nmap
- CVSS scores, OWASP mapping, 50+ screenshots, 15-page report
pfSense · 4-VLAN segmentation · Suricata IDS/IPS · Attack simulation
- Designed and deployed segmented enterprise network with DMZ architecture
- Suricata detected Nmap, SQLMap, Nikto via Emerging Threats signatures
- Captured PCAP evidence · Validated network isolation · Security report
- 70+ screenshots across 10 phases + Wireshark packet captures
- Setting up Splunk/ELK SIEM in home lab
- TryHackMe — SOC Level 1 path
- Web application penetration testing (DVWA)
- Enterprise network segmentation & IDS/IPS
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rushil-patel-998669402
- 📧 Email: rushilpatel0608@gmail.com
- 🌐 Portfolio: Coming soon