Project
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Open Source SASE
School project · Team · Ongoing
- Building a Secure Access Service Edge stack from open source components.
- Zero-trust principles with integrated network and security functions.
Blue Team · Defensive Security
Defending
networks,
quietly.
portfolio of @hennie-smith · cyber security student
Second-year Bachelor IT & Cyber Security and Cloud student focused on the defensive, hands-on side of security — network and system security, hardening, and building secure infrastructure. Curious about SOC operations and threat hunting, which I'd like to explore during an internship.
Status
Available Internship 2027
Focus
Blue Team · Defensive
Program
IT & Cyber Security and Cloud
Based in
Belgium
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About
Second-year Bachelor student in IT & Cyber Security and Cloud with a preference for the defensive, hands-on side of security: network and system security, hardening, and building secure infrastructure. I learn best by building and digging into things myself — a hardened Linux server, a self-hosted mail server, the SASE project.
I work in a structured way, solve problems analytically, and pick up new tools and technologies quickly. I'm expanding my knowledge in DevOps and Infrastructure as Code, and I'm fascinated by SOC operations, threat hunting and incident response — areas I'd like to explore in practice. After graduating I plan to pursue the Cisco CCNA and CompTIA Security+ certifications.
Right now I'm looking for a first internship where I can apply what I've learned and grow alongside an experienced team.
Network Security
Hardening
Secure Infrastructure
DevOps
IaC
SOC
Threat Hunting
At a glance
Handle@hennie-smith
RoleStudent, Blue Team
ProgramIT & Cyber Security and Cloud
Year2 of 3
MinorStartup & Entrepreneurship
AvailableInternship 2027
Based inBelgium
ContactJump to contact ↓
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Stack & Toolkit
Security Blue team & defense
Blue Team
Network Security
System Hardening
Logging & Monitoring
Incident Response Planning
Security Tools SIEM, IDS, firewall, proxy
Wazuh
Suricata
OPNsense
Squid
Wireshark
Cisco Packet Tracer
Networking Routing, switching, fundamentals
Cisco R&S
TCP/IP
Subnetting
VLANs
OSI Model
DNS
System Administration Linux & Windows Server
Ubuntu
Rocky Linux
Linux Mint
CLI & Scripting
Windows Server
Active Directory
Kerberos
iSCSI
Virtualisation Labs & sandboxes
VMware Workstation
Proxmox
VirtualBox
Automation & IaC Repeatable, version-controlled
Ansible
Bash Scripting
Git / GitHub
Languages Programming & query
Python
Bash
HTML / CSS
SQL (basic)
Tools Daily drivers
VS Code
Microsoft Office
Git CLI
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Projects
Project
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Portfolio Website
Personal project · Completed
- Self-managed Hetzner VM, hardened with SSH key auth, a firewall and localhost-only services.
- Self-hosted Mailcow mail server (Docker) with SPF, DKIM and DMARC — 10/10 mail-tester score.
- Caddy reverse proxy with Let's Encrypt TLS, plus a Prometheus & Grafana monitoring stack.
- Fully automated with Ansible (IaC) and a GitHub Actions CI pipeline.
Project
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Security Experiments
Personal project · Planned roll-out
- Honeypot deployment to capture and analyse attack patterns and traffic.
- Access-control research with a Flipper Zero against a smart lock.
- Raspberry Pi projects for network and security tooling.
Let's connect.
I'm actively looking for a Blue Team / defensive security internship starting 2027. If your team is hiring or you'd like to chat about a project, reach out via email, LinkedIn or GitHub.