Cybersecurity

This page is meant to keep track of my progress in acquiring Cybersecurity skills.

The following timeline shows that I've been experimenting and learning IT skills for quite some time. More recently, I've started focusing on Cybersecurity. This timeline will then continue to receive updates over time.

2012: flashed android on my HTC Touch Dual (running Windows Mobile).
2013: flashed CyanogenMod on my HTC Sensation (allowed me to upgrade the running android version).
2014: first time dual booting my windows laptop with Ubuntu.
2015: explored different Linux distributions, mostly Ubuntu based.
2016: started using Ubuntu based distributions as main driver on my personal laptop.
2018: started using remote access (via ssh), and writing bash scripts to automate tasks for my master thesis.
2019: started my first job which involved running experiments and processing data on Linux machines. More automation scripts, mostly in Python.
2021: ran my first Ubuntu based VPS, hosting a website and a Nextcloud instance which I installed manually (involved getting a certificate, setting up a database, configuring nginx). The nextcloud instance was installed on a subdomain of the website.
2023: set up a VPS running OpenBSD. This was more difficult as there is nowhere near as much information online and one has to rely on the man pages.
2024: completed the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate, started completing learning modules on TryHackMe, attended Cyber Booked (event organized by ISACA, ISC2, SSA and OWASP) and got my first CPE points!
2025: active on TryHackMe, attended CNCF meetup at Palo Alto Networks, and went to FOSDEM.