whoami

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My name is Arnaud Couturier, I am 26 y/o and i’ve been working in IT and Cybersecurity for about 5 years now. My main interests are in Pentesting, Red Teaming, DevSecOps and Automation. I use this site to share some writeups, thoughts and projects (when I have the time to do so).

Job Experience

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• Cybersecurity Consultant @ CGI - Present
• System and Network Administrator @ /dev/null
• Helpdesk
• Grocery Store worker

In my current role as a Cybersecurity Consultant @ CGI, the projects I work on consists mainly of:

• Automation for SecOps teams (Pyhton, PowerShell, Ansible) for various solutions such as Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for O365, PaloAlto Firewalls, Cisco IronPort, etc.

• Pentesting and Active Directory security Auditing

• Developing custom tooling for Vulnerability Management reporting (Python).

• IaC and CaC using Terraform and Ansible for complex infrastructure deployments (New target Activre Direcotry architecture, Phishing Campaings environnements with Evilginx, etc.)

• Deploying security tools in DevOps pipelines such as dependency-check, Semgrep, SonarQube and others.

Projects

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View my publicly available projects on my Github profile.

Certifications

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While I don’t particuly like the whole certification industry and don’t think we should value candidates solely based on them (read Certification Industrial Complex), I will still list those i acquired.

• HTB Certified Pentration Testing Specialist (HTB CPTS) - WIP
• Comptia Security+
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Completed Training

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• HackTheBox Penetration Tester Job Role Path

• AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

• AZ-500 Microsoft Security Engineer - WIP

CTFs

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I recently started to participate more in CTFs. So far i’ve been to:

• Hackfest CTF 2024

• HackTheBox Cyber Apocalypse 2023

• HackTheBox Cyber Apocalypse 2024

• HackTheBoo

• UnitedCTF

Education

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• Bachelors of Science in Cybersecurity (Polytechnique Montréal)