DANIEL THURSTON

About Me

I'm a career changer moving into cybersecurity after a long run in telecoms delivery and operations leadership. I've led large teams, owned delivery metrics, and worked in environments where reliability and clear communication matter. That background translates well to SOC work: calm under pressure, structured thinking, and clean handovers.

Over the last year I've been focused on hands-on security training and real-world practice. In my current trainee role I support secure infrastructure builds and hardening, and I assist with scoped external testing tasks. I'm comfortable with SIEM fundamentals, Windows Event Logs, alert triage, and evidence-based incident documentation, and I write clear customer-facing reports that pass QA.

Career changer with delivery discipline

One foot in operations leadership, one foot in security, strong execution and communication.

Hands-on SOC style practice

Log triage, timeline building, IOC handling, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and remediation write-ups.

Infrastructure hardening exposure

Secure builds with VMware and Proxmox plus pfSense under guidance.

Clear reporting

Customer-facing security reports written structured, QA-ready, and evidence-based.