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YUSIF HUSEYNOV

Cyber Security Specialist
Baku

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Cyber Security Trainer

Sky Tech Group
05.2024 - 10.2024
  • Developed and delivered cybersecurity training programs focusing on social engineering, secure IT practices, and Active Directory attacks/defenses.
  • Led hands-on 1 workshops simulating vulnerable AD environments, allowing trainees to practice real-world cybersecurity scenarios.

Cyber Risk Management Intern

PASHA Bank OJSC
08.2023 - 11.2023
  • Assisted in risk assessments and vulnerability analysis as part of the bank's cyber risk governance.
  • Gained foundational knowledge of risk mitigation and incident handling procedures.

Tax Consultant

Bukhalternative Advisory Company
08.2020 - 07.2022
  • Provided consultancy to ~250 clients in service, retail, and wholesale sectors.
  • Corrected $350,000 worth of asset records and handled correspondence with tax authorities.

Education

Cybersecurity Bootcamps -

Azerbaijan Cybersecurity Center
Baku
01.2023 - 07.2023

Defscope Training Center -

Defscope Training Center
Baku
08.2022 - 11.2022

BSc in Business Administration -

Eastern Mediterranean University
Cyprus
01.2017 - 01.2021

Skills

  • SIEM Analysis: Splunk, Elastic Stack, Logstash, Kibana

  • Event Log Analysis: Windows Event Logs, Sysmon, ETW, PowerShell (Get-WinEvent)

  • Threat Hunting: MITRE ATT&CK-based hunting, IOC/TTP analysis, behavioral analytics

  • IDS/IPS: Snort, Suricata, Zeek rule development and tuning

  • Malware Analysis: Static and dynamic analysis, debugging, rule creation (YARA, Sigma)

  • Network Traffic Analysis: Wireshark, Tcpdump, PCAP inspection, RDP decryption DNS/ICMP tunneling

  • Detection Engineering: Custom Splunk apps, correlation rule writing, signature-based detection

  • Forensics: Memory/Disk forensics, evidence acquisition, triage tools

  • Incident Handling: Incident documentation, triage, and reporting procedures

  • Active Directory Pentesting: Enumeration, privilege escalation, persistence techniques, and ticket attacks

  • Web Vulnerability Exploitation: Burp Suite, injection flaws, XSS/code injection analysis

  • Internal Recon: BloodHound, PowerView, LDAP enumeration

  • Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, Powershell

  • Scanning & Enumeration: Nmap (advanced), Nessus, OSINT tools

Certification

CompTIA Security+

Timeline

Cyber Security Trainer

Sky Tech Group
05.2024 - 10.2024

Cyber Risk Management Intern

PASHA Bank OJSC
08.2023 - 11.2023

Cybersecurity Bootcamps -

Azerbaijan Cybersecurity Center
01.2023 - 07.2023

Defscope Training Center -

Defscope Training Center
08.2022 - 11.2022

Tax Consultant

Bukhalternative Advisory Company
08.2020 - 07.2022

BSc in Business Administration -

Eastern Mediterranean University
01.2017 - 01.2021
YUSIF HUSEYNOVCyber Security Specialist