Hi There!👋🏻I am Guru HariHaraun

I'm an Cyber Security Student at University of Canberra, Certified Ethical Hacker and Junior Penetration Tester with 3+ years of research experience and a unique blend in Penetration Testing(Red Team), withholding a Bachelor of Engineering degree focused in Computer Science. Also, I am a Cloud Engineering Aspirant, Full-Stack Developer and SEO Strategist.

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Experience

Content Quality Assurance Officer

Fifth Domain

October 2022 - Present
Braddon, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Working with the cyber security training team to build a quality and technical cyber security course camp and reviewing the cyber security training materials for standards and publishing them to the clients.

Head Teacher

CodeCamp

September 2022 - Present
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Teaching coding fundamentals and programming concepts to more than 80+ primary school students in Canberra and providing directions to the teaching assistants to create a positive classroom environment.

Full Stack Developer & SEO Stagiest 

Gopaldass Industrial Services

April 2021 - June 2021
Tiruchirappalli, India
  • Built a Digital Vehicle Log Management System (DVLMS) to handle the data of customers and attenders.
  • Developed and Optimized a Web Portfolio for the company, Migrated and boosted the company’s online presence.

    Key Takeaways:

Google My Business

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Amazon Web Services

UI/UX

PHP

MySQL

GIT

Docker

Cybersecurity Intern

Virtually Testing Foundation

January 2021 - March 2021
Los Angeles, USA

• Main Objective

The key objective of this Internship is to leverage my skills and to gain real-world experience in designing the network architect and to Implement security for the networks.

    Key Takeaways:

Virtualization Security

Kubernetes

Cloud Security

Network Security

Network Penetration

ESXi

vCenter

DRS

Virtual Machines

NSX

DRS

IDPS

URL Analysis

Virtual Storage Network(vSAN)

Distributed Firewall

Risk Informed Cyber Security

Security Analyst Virtual Intern

Australia And New Zealand Banking Group

July 2020 - August 2020
Melbourne, Australia

• Social Engineering Investigation

Investigated the E-mails received/sent by the company and report the email witch has any suspicious items which may be harmful to the company.

• Digital Investigation

Analyzed a packet capture file using an open-source tool to identify and Investigate for any potential threats.

    Key Takeaways:

Social Engineering Concepts

Security Report Writing

Analyzing Network Traffic

Identification of File Types

Digital/Open Source Investigation

WebMaster & Cloud/System Admin

Xplore Service: Crowdsourcing

April 2020 - May 2020
New South Wales, Australia
  • Xplore Services is a charity organization who are working behalf with UNICEF Australia & UNHCR.
  • Developed a Fund-Raising platform to organize and maintain dynamic access for their public assets.
  • Deployed the application on AWS Cloud using Nginx server and orchestrated.  Also, worked on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for their organization.

    Key Takeaways:

HTML

CSS

NodeJS

MongoDB

Nginx

AWS

SLA

IAM

Load Balancer

Orchestration

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools

Deployment

Version Control

LEADERSHIP

Chairman

SVCE Cyber Hub

July 2020 - June 2021

A club dedicated especially to students interested in the field of information security and networking. I'm in charge of pushing the club's boundaries and organizing events, seminars, and workshops for students.

Creative Head

Association of Computer Engineers  (ACE)

June 2019- July 2020

My main objective is to lead the Association of Computer Engineers (ACE) Design Team, and I had overall responsibilities for the outcome of any design endeavoured by designers at ACE.

Graphic Designer

Association of Computer Engineers  (ACE)

June 2018- June 2019

As the Executive of the ACE Design Team, I was in charge of creating modern and imaginative artworks for the club. I was in charge of double-checking the designs and revisions made by peers.

Education

Masters of Information Technology and Systems in Cybersecurity

University of Canberra

2022 - 2024
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Bachelors of Computer Science and Engg. 

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University

August 2017 - June 2021
Chennai, India
Course Works
  • Computer Programming
  • Programming and Data Structures
  • Computer Architecture
  • Internet Programming
  • Operting Systems
  • Database Management Systems
  • Internet Programming
  • Computer Networks
  • User Interface Technologies
  • Software Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cryptography and Network Security
  • Mobile Computing
  • Multi-Core Architectures &Programming
  • Advance Software Engineering

Higher Secondary School

Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School

June 2015 - April 2017
Tiruchirappalli, India

Stream: Physics, Chemistry, Math and Computer Science. 

Certifications

Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT)

eLearnSecurity

April, 2022

eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT) is a 100% practical certification on penetration testing and information security essentials. Instead of answering through a series of multiple-choice questions, we are expected to perform an actual penetration test on a corporate network. This penetration test is modeled after a real-world scenario. eJPT is the only practical certification that proves to have essential Penetration Testing skills

    Key Takeaways:

TCP/IP

IP Routing

LAN protocols and devices

Basic vulnerability assessment of networks

Essential penetration testing processes & methodologies

HTTP and web technologies

Basic vulnerability assessment of web applications

Exploitation with Metasploit

Simple web application manual exploitation

Basic information gathering and reconnaissance

Simple scanning and profiling the target

Certified Network Security Specialist

International Cyber Security Institute (ICSI), United Kingdom

March, 2022

With this certification, I am cognizant of the modern network security, operating system hardening, firewalls, intrusion-detection systems, VPNs and Encryption, Physical Security, Standards, System Security and Security Policies in this certification.

210W-06 ICS Cybersecurity Threats

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

February, 2022

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provided the 210W-06 ICS Cybersecurity Threats training. This training covered three attributes of human threat, differentiate between the three categories of threat actors, explained the risk curve as it relates to threat groups, describes intentional versus unintentional “insider” cyber threats, discussed threat trend for industrial controls systems and describe the attacker tools and techniques used by hackers and penetration testers.

Certified Ethical Hacker (Practical) - C|EH

EC-Council

January, 2022

certified Ethical Hacker (Practical) is a six-hour, rigorous exam that requires to demonstrate the application of ethical hacking techniques and to solve a security audit challenge within a given limited of time, just like in the real world. The exam was developed by a panel of experienced SMEs which includes 20 real-life scenarios with questions designed to validate essential skills required in the ethical hacking domains as outlined in the C|EH program. It is not a simulated exam but rather, it mimics a real-world corporate network through the use of live virtual machines, networks, and applications designed to test ethical hacking skills.

    Key Takeaways:

Threat Vector Identification

Network Scanning

OS Detection

Vulnerability Analysis

System Hacking,

Web App Hacking.

Steganography

Steganalysis attacks

Malware Exploitation

Packet Sniffing

Web Server Attack

SQL injection attacks

Cryptography Attacks

Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner - GCCEP

Gremlin Inc.

November, 2021

Chaos Engineering is quickly becoming a career requirement for engineering teams focusing on reliability. Understanding the myriad Gremlin attacks and their use cases, how to use Gremlin and Chaos Engineering for more efficient postmortems, creating advanced Chaos Engineering Test Cases and Scenarios, and more were all covered in the Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner exam.

    Key Takeaways:

Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner

SRE

Chaos Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer

DevOps

Failure Injection

Reliability Engineering

Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 1: Certified Associate

Fortinet Network Security Expert Institute

December, 2020

The Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 1: Certified Associate course delves into the real-world cyber dangers that endanger consumers and businesses. The course also taught us how to take precautions to protect ourselves and others from harm. It also clarified fundamental phrases and concepts to aid you in your quest to have a better understanding of cybersecurity.

NPTEL Cloud Computing

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India

December, 2020

This certification helped me to have a broad understanding of the cloud computing architecture, some of the service management, data management, resources management in cloud computing. Also, It covered cloud security, cloud simulator and few open sources and commercial clouds available in the market. Introduced to the docker and usage of docker in today's world, research trend in cloud computing and fog computing.

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Cisco Networking Academy

August, 2020

As a sub-mission, I took this course consist of introductory knowledge of cyber-security, which includes the global implications of cyber threats, the impact of cyber-attacks on industries, and why cybersecurity is a growing profession. I understood how networks are vulnerable to attack and Cisco’s approach to threat detection and  detection and defence. On completion of this course, I have insight into opportunities available for pursuing network security certifications.

Cyber-security dedicated Short Term Training Program (STTP)

We Are Plymouth

July, 2020

As the custodian for STTP Programme (Dedicated 15 Days Cyber Security Training Program ) (#STTP0x01) instituted by #WeArePlymouths.I gain knowledge on the methodologies and techniques which are used by a cyber-security person in the real-time. I have got a privilege to be a part of this training program.

External Achievements

Hack The Box

Rank - HACKER

February, 2020 - Present

Hack The Box is an online platform that helps to test our penetration testing skills. It consists of Vulnerable machines where we need to apply our pen-testing skills to crack the box. At last, we need to submit the User and Root Flags to get points. With having HACKER Badge, I've owned 7+ Boxes with 33+ points. Also, solved 20+ CTF's on it. Hack The Box is a great platform to exchange ideas and methodologies with thousands of people in the Information Security field

Information Security - Blog Writter

Blog - Guru HariHaraun

January, 2021 - Present

As a techie, I was expanding my knowledge by reading a variety of blogs and articles, but there was a notion that if we taught people what we had learned, we would gain knowledge twice as much. Writing in a medium (online publishing platform) isn't ideal for a developer, so I created my own online blog publishing platform application and began contributing there.

Cyber Security Content Creator

YouTube, Inc.

July, 2012 - Present

As a hobby, I started my YouTube channel 8 years back and posting some of my interests. But a few years after, my interests diverted towards Information security domain. I conceived myself to upload contents which I learn about cybersecurity then, I started to use it for documenting my works as the proof of concept(POC) which might help the cybersecurity aspirants to learn whatever I have done.

SKILL

Familiar Languages, Tools & Frameworks

BashPythonphpHTML5CSS3Java ScriptC++Py InstallerSeleniumRequestsBeautiful SoupFlaskNodeJs

CI / CD Devops Tools & Frameworks 

Amazon Web ServicesLinodeGoogle Cloud PlatformGitC PanelHerokuAzureDockerKubernetesTravis CISplunk

VA / PT Tools & Frameworks

NmapJohn The RipperBurpsuiteHashcatMetasploitWiresharkEttercapExploit DBNet CatMedusaSocial Engineering ToolkitHydraSQL MapAircrack-NGAngry IP Scanner

Design

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe xdVegas ProAdobe LightroomBootstrapFigmaFL StudioGimp

Databases

MySQLMongoDB

Recent Work

Co-WIN Vaccine Notifier bot for India

Co-WIN Vaccine Notifier bot for India

CoWIN Vaccine Notifier is a python based alert bot that checks the CoWIN portal periodically and if the vaccination slot was available for the user details which you given, it may send the email alert or an SMS alert. The Application is driven through the Flask framework (it is a micro web framework). The frontend application was deployed and hosted on Heroku (PaaS).

Undetectable Backdoor Malware

Undetectable Backdoor Malware

Using python and created a malware which tends to stream data between the victim and hacker. Moreover, the hacker could even  pwn(take over) the victim's machine shell. Sessions are created within the hacker's code, so that the machine could listen for multiple bind connection. Also, hosted the hacker's machine on EC2 Instances on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

BookMyShow Ticket Notifier

BookMyShow Ticket
Notifier

Getting tickets for the Avengers movie on the first day isn't easy. Using the Flask framework (it is a micro web framework used to deploy web applications in python) & beautiful Soup (a python literary used to scraps the data from the web pages) I've made an automated script which keeps on checking and notifies user when the ticket booking starts. Also, hosted on Heroku (PaaS).

Payment Gateway Phishing Attack

Payment Gateway Phishing Attack

In the modern world, shopping, movies, foods, Banking etc. Everything is done through the Internet. This is a cool thing but, on the flip-side, it has lot's of vulnerable threat too. Phishing is one of the social engineering attack done by hackers now days to get the credentials of the users. So I've recreated a XYZ Bank's payment gateway module and performed the attack in this project.

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Twitter Tweet Analysis

Using Apache Spark (an online streaming Real-Time Analytics Platform) to process the tweets and identifying the trending hashtags from Twitter and, finally, retrieve top hashtags and representing the data in a real-time dashboard using the Flask Framework with sizzled up with some HTML5, CSS3 and Java script. The tweets are scrapped or recieved with Twitter developer's account.

Online Movie Presenter for Small Organisation (GitHub Repo)

Online Movie Presenter for small organisations

Since in these modern days, the worth for watching movies on online has drastically grown. In this project, you can upload the Movie details like Movie Name, Movie Image, Director, Cast, Storyline and much more. Also, the cool features are, we can even upload the Movie file or torrent file to the webserver. All these details can be viewed by the users.

User Registration & Login systems in Node.js using MongoDB

User Registration & Login systems in Node.js using MongoDB

Simple User Registration & Login systems app done with Node.js Framework using MongoDB(Atlas) as the data store, Express as the routing system, Body-parser as the parser for web page, Express-session used to track the user's session and of course Mongoose to make interacting with Mongo DB from Node app.

Contact me

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