Welcome to my GitHub! I’m a cybersecurity-focused IT professional with hands-on experience in Azure cloud security, vulnerability management, SOC operations, Windows Server administration, and threat hunting.
My work blends cloud engineering, system security, and real-world defensive techniques to help organizations build resilient and secure environments.

• 🎓 Master’s in Cybersecurity Engineering (In progress – June 2026)
• 🎓 B.S. Information Technology – Security Specialization (Colorado Technical University, 2022)
• 🔐 CompTia Sec+ certification – In progress
• 🧪 Currently training in a Cyber-Range Bootcamp (SIEM • SOC • Azure Vulnerability Management in Azure Lab)
• 💻 Currently training on ISC2, Google IT support, and Google Cybersecurity in Coursera
• 🔍 Passionate about network security, digital forensics, process improvement, and security automation

Below are the projects and labs that represent my hands-on skills.

📁 Project: Create-Delete VM in Azure
Highlights:

• Created VM without public IP
• Configured NSGs and private networking
• Reset credentials, start/stop VM, resource cleanup

📁 Project: Tenable Vulnerability Lab Windows
Highlights:

• Performed vulnerability scans using Nessus/Tenable
• Analyzed findings using CVSS
• Built remediation and patching recommendations

📁 Project: Tenable Vulnerability Lab Linux
Highlights:

• Performed vulnerability scans using Nessus/Tenable
• Analyzed findings using CVSS
• Built remediation and patching recommendations

📁 Project: [Threat Hunting Lab]
Highlights:

• Used MITRE ATT&CK methods
• Built hypotheses and identified IOCs
• Correlated logs to uncover malicious activity

📁 Project: [SOC Operations Lab] Highlights:

• Investigated alerts (brute force, malware, lateral movement)
• Created detection rules and playbooks
• Performed log correlation and incident triage

📁 Project: [Windows Server Lab] Highlights:

• Configured roles, GPOs, and user permissions
• Managed Active Directory and security policies
• Performed system hardening

📁 Project: [DHCP Server Lab]
Highlights:

• Created scopes and reservations
• Configured DHCP options
• Enabled monitoring and audit logs

📁 Project: [DNS Server Lab]
Highlights:

• Built forward/reverse lookup zones
• Added A, PTR, CNAME, MX records
• Troubleshot name resolution issues

📁 Project: [Google IT Support Lab]
Highlights:

• Completed OS, networking, and troubleshooting labs
• Strengthened IT fundamentals and scripting skills

Highlights:

• Security principles, access controls, network security, security operations, and incident response/BCDR
• Practical understanding of risk, governance/ethics, common controls, monitoring/incident handling concepts, and secure networking fundamentals to support SOC/helpdesk-to-security pathways

📁 Project: [Google Cybersecurity Lab]
Highlights:

• SOC analyst readiness and covers foundations, risk management, network security, security operations, and incident escalation workflows.
• Security+ adjacent: includes applied activities and introduces industry workflows and tools (including SIEM concepts/dashboards

Threat Hunting • Vulnerability Scanning • Risk Prioritization

Azure VM Management • NSGs • Identity & Access

Tenable/Nessus • Azure Security

DNS • DHCP • Active Directory
Linux • Windows OS Administration

📧 Email: rosalina.browning@outlook.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalina-browning/
💻 Professional site https://qtech.life