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Alex Tudu

Cyber Security Professional

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About

I had a thought at the back of my mind of how I could add to society with my ability in coding. Back in late 2017, I discovered my answer, not excessively clear where I was going but rather still had confidence subsequent to doing my exploration on the cybersecurity space.

I am a cybersecurity aficionado with +2 years of experience who is as of now joined up with experts of cybersecurity at Health Alliance working as a Penetration Tester.

Specialties:

  • Penetration testing(thick-client, thin-client, API's, Wifi, etc).
  • Secure Source Code Review
  • Programming skills in Java,Javascript, Python, Golang amd Shell Scripting.

    • Achievements:

  • Participant (3rd at Brisbane and 25th out of 96th team at Australia) at the National Missing Persons Hackathon 2019


    • Certifications:

  • Junior Penetration tester - eLearnSecurity
  • Web Application Penetration Tester - eLearnSecurity
  • END USER: NETWORK SECURITY - Cybrary
    • February 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-420d47
  • MIcro Certification - Web App Security Fundamentals- Cybrary
    • February 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-b85e56
  • Micro Certification - Incident Management - Cybrary
    • February 2018
    • Credential ID :SC-2a02ca910-fdbd3f
  • Micro Certification - Policy Development - Cybrary
    • February 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-32ce1a
  • Micro Certification - END USER: SOCIAL ENGINEERING - Cybrary
    • January 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-bc4046
  • Micro Certification - SQL Injection - Cybrary
    • January 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-30a954
  • Micro Certification - XSS - Cybrary
    • January 2018
    • Credential ID :SC-2a02ca910-d2c74d
  • Micro Certification - IDS/IPS - Cybrary
    • January 2018
    • Credential ID : SC-2a02ca910-a3b75
  • PentesterLab Badges
    • PCAP badge - PTLP2803 (January 2021)
    • White Badge - PTLW3435 (March 2021)
    • Essential Badge - PTLE3753 (December 2020)
    • Unix Badge - PTLU6255 (October 2020)
    • Introduction Badge - PTLN12006 (October 2020)

    • Basic Information
    Age:
    27
    Email:
    alextudu@gmail.com
    Address:
    Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
    Language:
    English and Hindi
    Professional Skills
    Web Application Security
    Advance
    Scripting
    Advance
    Network Security
    Advance
    API Security
    Advance
    Information Security
    Advance
    Security tools
    Advance
    Projects (Coming Soon)
    Work Experience

    August 2021 - Present

    Health Alliance
    Penetration Tester

  • Plan penetration tests and vulnerability assessments:
    • Assist with scoping and leading engagements from kickoff through to remediation.
    • Create and implement proficient security testing plans and test cases.
  • Select, design and create appropriate tools for testing:
    • Design and create penetration methods, scripts and tests.
  • Perform tests/assessments:
    • Simulate real life attacks on networks, firewalls, operating systems and web applications wherever they may be hosted including: on premise, IaaS and public cloud in accordance with the penetration testing methodology.
    • Perform source code security reviews.
    • Provide recommendations to improve security and reduce risk of compromise.
  • Document findings and provide feedback to the teams.
  • Contributions:
    • Aided in documenting items such as methodology, process, etc. into a penetration testing playbook.

    May 2020 - July 2021

    Xplor Technologies
    Security Analyst

  • Maturing the Application Security practice within Xplor.
  • Worked on development and implementation of an already developed Agile Application Security Framework for a Secure Software Development Life Cycle (S-SDLC).
  • Optimisation and automation various security processes.
  • Security awareness initiatives, which includes, user education and phishing campaigns.
  • Executing security assessments.

    • February 2020 - March 2020

    Cyber Researchers of Waikato (CROW)
    Penetration Tester (Contract)

  • Creating new tests to identify vulnerabilities across several systems
  • Using physical security tests and identify areas that need physical protection
  • Finding vulnerabilities in popular, common software as well as proprietary applications
  • Pinpointing entry points for hackers
  • Using social engineering to identify improvement for security awareness and education
  • Feedback and reports for review of main business managers

    • November 2018 - January 2019

    Cyber Security Researchers of Waikato (CROW)
    ICS Penetration Tester Intern

  • Studied and researched on the working and architecture of ICS / SCADA environment.
  • Gauging the security posture of ICS / SCADA simulation environment.
  • Pen-testing the environment (network and web) with the help of tools like nmap, nessus, metasploit etc.
  • Analyzing the end results and documenting it into a report.

    • Education

    2018 - 2020

    Master's Degree
    Master of Cyber Security

    The University of Waikato

    The course helps us to get knowledge regarding technical, legal, policy and management aspects of Cyber security with focusing on cloud computing technologies and computer infrastructure. It also focuses on obtaining the skills regarding detecting security breaches, preventative security and offensive security.
    Courses:

    1.COMPX518 -Cyber Security
    2.COMPX542 -Web Search: Technical and Social Issues
    3.LEGAL526 -Legal Aspects of Cyber Security
    4.COMP514 -Carrier and ISP Networks
    5.COMP527 -Cloud Computing Technologies and Security
    6.COMP532 -Information Visualization
    7.IRSST507-Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare
    8.COMPX592 -Dissertation

  • Finding a Safe Port: Cyber-Security Analysis for Open Source Digital Library Software (Selected for JCDL ’20 Conference)
    • Static and Dynamic application security testing for Greenstone3 and Dspace.
    • Created a tool to do pdf analysis to check whether it is malicious or not.
    • Designed a security architecture for Greenstone3.
    • Link :https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3383583.3398612

    2012 - 2015

    Bachelor's Degree
    BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application

    Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS, Rohini Sector-5)

    The course helps us to obtain the skills regarding the software development areas in I.T languages like JAVA, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and many more which are related to I.T industry.

    Contact Me
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    Address

    Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Email

    alextudu@gmail.com