I am a Digital Security Engineer at the Cyprus National CSIRT / National SOC. My work covers both sides of security. I build and tune detections, respond to incidents and hunt for threats, and I also run penetration tests as part of the internal Red Team.
Before that I was a SOC Analyst at Spectrum XOps, a multi-client MSSP.
experience
Digital Security Engineer
Cyprus National CSIRT / National SOC Sep 2025 to present
- Detection engineering in Elastic Security and Splunk
- Incident response and threat hunting
- Onboarding organisations to national monitoring
- Penetration testing in the internal Red Team since Mar 2026
SOC Analyst
Spectrum XOps May 2023 to Aug 2025
- Worked across a multi-client MSSP environment with FortiSIEM and FortiEDR
- Built and tuned detection rules
- Helped build a rule-optimisation tool
- Designed a FortiSIEM dashboard
- Mentored junior analysts
competitions
- European Cyber Security Challenge 2026 (Team Cyprus)
- Cyber Europe 2026 (Team Cyprus)
- Cyprus Cyber Security Challenge 2026 (Top 10)
certifications
bug bounty
Findings reported through HackerOne and the NASA VDP.
education
- MSc Cybersecurity, Georgia Institute of Technology (in progress, 4.0 GPA)
- BSc Computer Science, First Class, Coventry University
tools
- SIEM and EDR: Elastic Security, Splunk, FortiSIEM, FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender XDR
- Offensive: Burp Suite, Nessus, Nmap, Metasploit, BloodHound, Kali Linux
- Scripting and systems: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Linux