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Conceived and led Africa's first CTI and IR CyberDrill (April 2026) — a real-time simulation covering threat intelligence, network forensics, web exploitation, Active Directory attacks, IT/OT security, and incident reporting. Designed and deployed the full lab infrastructure, led the technical team, and managed challenge development across all tracks, delivering a large-scale hands-on exercise that strengthened participants' detection, investigation, and response capabilities.

Built a multi-VM SOC lab integrating Wazuh, ELK Stack, and Splunk for centralized logging, correlation, and real-time alerting. Simulated realistic attack chains — initial access, lateral movement, data exfiltration — to generate telemetry for SIEM-driven investigation. Tuned detection rules and correlation logic to reduce false positives while preserving true alerts, closely reproducing real SOC monitoring workflows.

Created original CTF challenges spanning beginner to expert level across Digital Forensics, OSINT, MISC, Blockchain, and IoT for national competitions, designed around realistic attack scenarios to build practical skills. Competed as a core member of Securinets FST, achieving Top 3 finishes in the majority of competitions — validating strong offensive and defensive security skills.