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Evidence over claims.

A quick guide to what this portfolio demonstrates, how to share it, and what should be verified before publishing a job application.

Hands-on work

OpenCanary honeypot documentation, alerting concepts and a separate proposed architecture design.

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SOC investigation practice

Worked fictional cases and seven interactive simulated investigations. These are training examples, not real incident responses.

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Before sharing on LinkedIn

  • Check your contact and GitHub links lead to the intended public profile.
  • Verify each project description matches what you have personally built and tested.
  • Keep proposed tools and synthetic telemetry labelled as such.
  • Check the website on mobile and desktop and test report downloads.
  • Never publish live credentials, private IP information or sensitive honeypot logs.

Suggested LinkedIn Featured description

PhilSIEM is my independent cybersecurity learning portfolio, documenting hands-on Linux and OpenCanary lab work, a proposed security-monitoring architecture, simulated SOC investigations and a browser-based analyst training lab.

This description is suitable for a Featured link. It deliberately avoids implying that fictional investigations were real incidents.