Open to work 2026

Hey, I'm Youness Boussedari Cyber Security Engineer.

I hunt vulnerabilities before attackers do — offensive testing, Active Directory, cloud hardening and SOC monitoring, documented like a real engagement.

Youness Boussedari
Cybersecurity @ OFPPT CMC Rabat-Salé-Kénitra — Morocco
16Hands-on projects
5Formal assessments (T1–T5)
3Security writeups
15+Security tools
About

I test systems the way attackers do.

Cybersecurity student on the Cyber Security track at OFPPT's CMC Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, focused on security engineering — cloud security, offensive security and security operations.

Every project on this page is a real lab I built and broke on purpose: Active Directory domains, pfSense and FortiGate firewalls, a Cowrie honeypot, multi-cloud Azure and AWS. Findings land in structured reports with CVSS scoring, PoC evidence and remediation.

Morocco --:-- local
Skills

What I can do
for you.

Hands-on across offensive and defensive security — built through labs, coursework and a red-board internship cycle.

Offensive Security & Pentest

Recon, enumeration and exploitation — web flaws per OWASP Top 10, internal services and privilege escalation, from first scan to root.

Hydra GobusterSQLi / XSS

SOC & Blue Team

Monitoring, log analysis and incident hunting — SIEM pipelines, ATT&CK mapping, and deep packet analysis when it matters.

SysmonWindows Event Logs Suricata

Infrastructure & Cloud Security

Hardening networks, servers and identities — on-prem Active Directory labs plus multi-cloud IAM and segmentation.

Active DirectoryGPO DNS / DHCP
Experience

Where I've
worked so far.

Offensive Security

2025

Ran reconnaissance and enumeration with Nmap, then exploited OWASP Top 10 weaknesses — SQLi, XSS, SSRF and CSRF — across DVWA and Juice Shop.

Infrastructure & Active Directory

2021 – 2023

Deployed Active Directory (AD DS, DNS, DHCP) and hardened workstations through Group Policy, then integrated Wazuh and Splunk for centralized log collection.

Cloud Security — Azure & AWS

2024 – 2026

Built a multi-cloud security lab — Azure VNet, NSG, RBAC and Entra ID alongside AWS IAM users, groups and roles — with positive and negative permission testing on both platforms.

SOC & Blue Team

2025

Monitored and analyzed events with Wazuh SIEM, mined Windows Event Logs and Sysmon for IOCs, mapped adversary tactics to MITRE ATT&CK, and simulated attacks with Caldera while dissecting traffic in Wireshark.

Writing

Security
writeups.

Structured kill chains, CVSS scoring and remediation — the way engagements should be documented.

Kioptrix Samba RCE writeup
Pentest — CVE-2007-2447

Kioptrix Level 1 — Samba RCE to Root

Full kill chain from recon to root: how the Samba username map script yielded remote code execution, with CVSS scoring and remediation.

Altoro SQLi chaining writeup
Web Security — OWASP

Chaining SQLi + IDOR + XSS to Takeover

Altoro Mutual advanced exploitation: Union SQLi schema extraction, backup discovery, vertical privesc and session hijacking.

TLS MITM audit writeup
Network — Cryptography

MITM & TLS Audit — from pcap to TLS 1.3

ARP spoofing with Bettercap, cleartext Telnet and FTP credential theft in Wireshark, LOGJAM and SWEET32 analysis, PFS hardening.

Evaluations

What supervisors said.

Youness ran a full pentest alone — reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation through remediation — with professional reporting: an executive summary, CVSS tables and PoC screenshots.
Dr. Goran Pavlovic Supervisor — CMC Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, M204/M205
Tasks 1–5 validated 4–5 out of 5 — PTES/OWASP methodology, command of Nmap, Burp and Wireshark, a documented kill chain, plus an AI detection project for SQLi and XSS deployed with Flask.
Stage Assessment Board Tasks 1–5 — Pentest / Red Team + AI
Contact

Let's talk security. Seriously.

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