Himath Mandul

Himath Mandul

A cyber security grad who likes to write.

Featured Projects

Building an isolated lab with a SIEM, active directory and Wireguard tunnel with room for extension.

The SOC Homelab

Batch-cleaning image metadata with mat2 using shell aliases, and a safer shell script with directory validation.

Mat2 wrapper for recursive image metadata cleaning

Recent Posts

The importance of metadata

What gets embedded in photos and documents by default, and why you should strip it before sharing anything.

My Skills

Detection & Response

Wazuh
Grafana
Prometheus
Nessus
OpenVAS
Log Analysis
Alert Triage

Offensive

Burp Suite
Metasploit
Nmap
Hashcat
OWASP Top 10

Systems

Linux
NixOS
Windows Server
Active Directory
Cisco
Docker
Ansible
Proxmox

Networking

TCP/IP
DNS
VLANs
Firewall Policy
IPsec VPN
Wireshark
TLS

Code

Python
Javascript
C++
Go
Bash
PowerShell
SQL
Git

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