My name is Kyle Efole & I’m an aspiring Cybersecurity professional looking to acquire an entry-level Security Analyst position. I have hands-on experience in incident response, memory forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, and IDS rule engineering.
🛡️ Featured Incident Response Projects
Here are my four end-to-end IR case studies using real security tools and workflows:
🔹 Imperial Memory – Memory Forensics Memory forensics using Volatility to extract credentials, decrypt an encrypted archive, and identify hidden indicators from a memory dump.
🔹 Mail & Trail – Splunk Log Analysis & Threat Hunting Investigated malicious URL activity captured in a honeypot using Telnet, Splunk, SPL queries, VirusTotal, and Base64 decoding.
🔹 One of Us – Malware Triage & Backdoor Trojan Analysis Triaged 271 suspicious files using VirusTotal and ClamAV to identify a Trojan with a Meterpreter-style backdoor and extract its MD5 hash.
🔹 Pigs Rule – Network Traffic Analysis & Snort Rule Engineering Analyzed tcpdump packet captures, detected suspicious RDP traffic on port 3389, and wrote custom Snort IDS rules to generate alerts visualized in Snorby.
🧰 Tools & Technologies
🔹 SOC Tools
- Splunk
- Snort / Snorby
- Volatility
- Wireshark
- tcpdump
- ClamAV
- VirusTotal
- Base64 decoding tools
🔹 Systems & Platforms**
- Linux (Ubuntu / Kali)
- Windows Server (memory images)
- Virtualization labs
🔹 Technical Skills**
- Incident Response
- Malware Triage
- Memory Forensics
- SIEM Analysis
- Network Traffic Analysis
- Writing Snort rules
- Hashing (MD5/SHA)
- Log Filtering / Threat Hunting
- MITRE ATT&CK mapping
- CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)
🚀 What I’m Working Toward
- Breaking into a SOC Tier 1 Analyst role
- Strengthening my detection skills
- Improving cloud security fundamentals (AWS / Azure)
- Continuing Blue Team projects and home labs
📫 Connect With Me
Email: kodefole@gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-olivier-efole
Thanks for stopping by! Always open to opportunities, mentorship, and collaboration in cybersecurity.