Telstra: Cybersecurity

I used the Forage virtual experience program to complete a cybersecurity simulation focused on responding to a malware attack caused by a zero-day vulnerability.

The first task was to triage a malware attack alert and respond to it by contacting the appropriate team. Afterwards, I analyzed firewall logs to study how the malware spreads by identify patterns in the attacker’s network requests.

Using the identified patterns, I wrote a firewall rule using Python scripting that was deployed the organization's HTTP server. Then, I drafted an incident report documenting how the response to the attack, the malware investigation process, and the actions taken to mitigate the event.