Hello, my name is Thomas Biryla and I am a rising senior at Marist College, pursuing my bachelor's in Cyber Security and triple minoring in I.S., I.T., and Computer Science. To tell you a little about my personal life, I am the current president and captain of the men's club volleyball team here on campus and have been part of this team for the past three, going on four years. During my time on this team, I have learned many skills in working with groups with differing ideologies and work ethics; as well as leadership skills from my time in leadership positions. I am excited to bring these skills to a great company where I believe I can make a difference with my colleagues and all the customers I hope to help in the future.
During this project I was assigned an attack box and a defense box in VMWare to conduct an attack on the vulnerable metasploitable software using an attack of my choice. During this project I looked into the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor exploit available in metasploitable and decided to learn about the dangers of back doors as well as the ways to defend against them. The way I defended against this was by disabling the FTP protocol as you can instead use the SFTP protocol. However during my research this is not the only solution I found as there are many other ways of dealing with this issue depending on the needs of the company and the relevance of the service affected.
During this project I was a part of a four person team assigned to investigate a possible insider threat in our fictional company. We were in charge of creating a forensic image of the suspected insider threat's computer in order to have a forensic copy to work with. Then we went through the copy to look for any suspicious activity that could provide any evidence that the suspect was indeed guilty of leaking company information and then documenting our results in a forensic report.