Identity and Access
Active Directory Attack and Defense Lab
Domain controller, Windows clients, Kali, Splunk, and hardening notes for Kerberoasting, LLMNR poisoning, and least-privilege cleanup.
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Ryan Gilmartin
Homelabs, projects, achievements, field notes, and resume highlights in one place for security and IT teams to understand how I think, build, troubleshoot, and learn.
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Portfolio Direction
Proof that you can operate, document, and keep learning.
This site is structured like a practical security notebook: each lab and project should show the goal, tools used, architecture, what broke, how it was fixed, and what you learned. Recruiters can scan fast; technical hiring managers can dig deeper.
Homelabs
Hands-on environments
Monitoring
Home SOC Stack
Wazuh, Suricata, Sysmon, dashboards, alert tuning, and sample incident notes from simulated endpoint and network activity.
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Virtualized Network Playground
Proxmox, pfSense, VLANs, DNS, backup routines, segmentation tests, and diagrams that explain how the lab is wired.
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Things you built
Use these entries for scripts, dashboards, automation, detection engineering, cloud labs, repair work, or any project with a measurable result.
Vulnerability Triage Dashboard
Prioritizes CVEs by asset importance, exploitability, and patch status.
PowerShell Admin Toolkit
Automates user checks, log pulls, service status, and workstation inventory.
Cloud Security Baseline
Documents IAM, logging, storage, and alerting controls in a demo tenant.
Achievements
Signals worth noticing
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Security+ certification supporting security fundamentals, risk awareness, troubleshooting, and professional technical growth.
View CertificateBuilt and documented a production-style lab
Summarize what the environment proves about your IT and security skills.
Continuous learning archive
Track CTFs, courses, repairs, volunteer work, and technical milestones.
Interesting Articles
What you are reading
Collect useful write-ups here and add one or two sentences on why they matter. That turns links into evidence of judgment.
Resume
Ready for cybersecurity and IT roles
Hands-on cybersecurity and IT candidate with practical homelab experience, troubleshooting discipline, documentation habits, and a CompTIA Security+ certification. The resume page highlights labs, projects, tools, and the technical strengths behind this portfolio.