Labs & Training

Hands-on practice, verified publicly. I train on live systems - my own lab and structured platforms - and document the work as writeups.

TryHackMe

Top 3% worldwide - 119 rooms completed - 18 badges. Profile: tryhackme.com/p/Ktruong86

Focus areas so far:

• Networking: Introductory Networking, DNS in Detail, HTTP in Detail, How Websites Work
• Linux: Linux Fundamentals 1-3, Putting It All Together
• Windows: Windows Fundamentals 1-3
• Security operations: Offensive Security Intro, Defensive Security Intro, John the Ripper, SSRF, IDOR, FlareVM

Currently working through the SOC Level 1 path: SIEM fundamentals, network traffic analysis, detection and triage.

Certifications

• CompTIA Security+ (ce) - verify on Credly

Home lab

The lab behind the writeups: Arista EOS switching, VyOS routing and firewalling, Proxmox virtualization, WireGuard, isolated pentest segments, and out-of-band IPMI management. Full details in the project writeups.