# About Me

This is my personal blog, which is not associated with any company, and are my personal views

### A Little About Me

* A Tech Geek with business prowess
* Gone from Developer to Architecture to Operations to Management to Cyber Security
* My Hobbies
  * Fashion
  * Automating my life (With my Homelab)
  * Geeking out in things which pique my interest

## Certifications

### CISSP

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* Passed CISSP at the age of 23
  * [Verify with credly link](https://www.credly.com/badges/660f96e7-9751-4f67-b163-637f9608b47d)
    * Want to know how I got CISSP at the age of 23
      * [the-journey-of-how-i-passed-cissp](https://docs.wehost.co.in/blog/the-journey-of-how-i-passed-cissp "mention")

### Other Certification

#### Certified in Cyber Security

* Link to [Badge](https://www.credly.com/badges/98cb1c0e-0827-46ad-add7-ecd275b0c130)

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#### ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Associate

* Link to [Badge](https://www.skillfront.com/Badges/86910310894979)

#### Google Cyber Security

* <https://coursera.org/share/7fd4e69b159fc5b210f83b19996a2006>

## Public Interviews

### John Hammond

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### Grant Collins

#### Build Practical Experience in Cybersecurity Today (Cybersecurity Homelabs)

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## Public Talks

* Breachforce
  * Diving into nmap How exactly does OS detection work
    * <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/breachforce_breachforce-cybersecurity-collaboration-activity-7228840264654626816-TiJ9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop>
    * [how-nmap-gets-what-os-is-running-by-using-different-probes](https://docs.wehost.co.in/blog/how-nmap-gets-what-os-is-running-by-using-different-probes "mention")
* Vidyalankar School of Information Technology (2024)
  * breaking into cybersecurity
    * <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7098597108487745536/>
* keynote speaker at Responsible Netism (2017)
  * Social engineering high value targets
    * <https://marathi.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/mumbai-news/work-together-for-cyber-security/articleshow/60784898.cms>

## Fun Facts about me

* started working at the age of 16 doing web development
  * And things just scaled up from there
* I have given multiple speeches but my most notable one is at the age of 17
  * <https://marathi.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/mumbai-news/work-together-for-cyber-security/articleshow/60784898.cms>
* After being awarded a grant by honourable Minister [Ashwini Vaishnaw](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwini-vaishnaw-349b40226/) \*
* ![](https://556493038-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FxMLCiQqJJztvsDM2LNoE%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-c179e72a9ff7de199c2aa70f1f2e2231986af6ac%2Fimage.png?alt=media)
* Trained over 1500+ people in cybersecurity

### About this Site

* This is a public documentation site of the tools and configs to build applications faster
* The Focus of my home lab is Cybersecurity
  * building an entire enterprise environment

## Resume

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## Links

* [Github](https://github.com/nathaniel-security/Docs)
* [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-fernandes/)