Blake Niebrugge
IT Security Professional
About Me
I'm a security professional with experience across security platforms, incident investigation, cloud infrastructure, and automation. In my current role, I work on integrating security technologies, improving security visibility, investigating suspicious activity, and building automated workflows. I'm particularly interested in the engineering side of cybersecurity, including network security, cloud security, and infrastructure.
Read More →I'm a security professional with experience across security platforms, incident investigation, cloud infrastructure, and automation. In my current role, I work on integrating security technologies, improving security visibility, investigating suspicious activity, and building automated workflows. I'm particularly interested in the engineering side of cybersecurity, including network security, cloud security, and infrastructure.
Outside of work, I enjoy building and experimenting with technology. My homelab gives me a place to get hands-on with virtualization, Linux, networking, and security projects beyond my day-to-day responsibilities. I also enjoy scripting and finding practical ways to make systems more efficient and secure.
When I'm not working on something technical, you'll probably find me watching hockey, baseball, or football, or out on a golf course trying to get better. I'm also a computer science graduate, and building this website has been another opportunity to put those skills to use.
I'm always interested in connecting with people who enjoy technology, solving difficult problems, and building things that work well. Feel free to reach out!
- Blake
Read Less ←Professional Experience
InfoSec Analyst
IT Cloud Analyst
InfoSec Intern
Education
Illinois Wesleyan University
- NCAA Baseball | 2019-2023
- Theta Chi Fraternity | 2019-2023
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President
House Manager
Chair of Alumni Relations - Interfraternity Council | 2022
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VP Finance & Communication
St. Anthony High School
Certifications
PenTest+
CompTIA PenTest+
Portfolio / Projects
This Website
blakeniebrugge.com serves as a personal portfolio, showcasing my skills and experience in the field of IT and technology. It is built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with responsive design for various devices. It is also 100% hosted on Microsoft Azure using Static Web Apps and CI/CD runners from GitHub.
Deep Learning MLB Team Classifier
Developed a PyTorch-based neural network to identify MLB players' teams based on profile pictures, achieving near 90% testing accuracy. Scraped nearly 1,200 images from team websites for training. Includes a user-friendly interface for uploading images and testing the model.
Home Lab
Repurposed a Dell OptiPlex 3040 into a Proxmox VE host that currently runs a number of small virtual machines running various tasks such as Twitter bots, a Tailscale server, a Kali machine (with an additional, intentionally vulnerable VM to test against), and a web server.
Home Lab: Setting Up & Joining Active Directory Domain
Self-learning experience on my Home Lab environment that included setting up a Windows 2019 Server, configuring a new Active Directory domain, joining that domain with a Windows 10 machine, and then pushing CIS Benchmarks to it via Group Policy.
Home Lab: Re-architecting My Home Network After an ISP Change
A case study which discusses multiple issues that arose after changing Internet Service Providers, which led to self hosted websites and a VPN server going offline.
SSH Honeypot
A Cowrie honeypot that is hosted in Microsoft Azure, which logs SSH Connections, Login Attempts, and Commands that were ran. It enhances the logs with geo-location data and ships them to a Grafana Cloud instance, which displays a dashboard using this real-time data.
Feel free to try it yourself: ssh 20.33.8.126