Héctor Toral
Cybersecurity operator
Zaragoza, ES | hi@hectortoral.com | hectortoral.com | github.com/hec7orci7o
I am an engineer who has always been attracted to the world of cybersecurity. I am a restless person who is always looking for something to do. I have participated in different events, such as CTF and hackathons. Also, because I am a member of codelabzgz (student association), I have participated and organized some competitions and formative talks in programming languages such as Python. On the other hand, due to my interest and that of other students, we managed to encourage the creation of a cybersecurity school where a professor and PhD students introduced us to this world.
The last event in which I have participated is Locked Shields in which for the third time in a row I have been part of the blue team of a fictitious country, testing my skills to defend the national computer systems and critical infrastructures under real-time attacks.
In addition, I have done some volunteering at my university, as an assistant in the engineering and architecture week, and participating in the mentoring program.
Finally, after finishing my university degree, I have resumed training in cybersecurity, focusing most of my time on training on platforms such as HackTheBox and PortSwigger.
Work Experience
NTT Data
DevOps Student | Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Development of my bachelor thesis on the Knot platform, based on the platform engineering philosophy. The goal of my work was to provide the platform with the basic capabilities for automated serverless service lifecycle management, facilitating its deployment and use by development teams.
During the course of my internship, I acquired skills in deploying and orchestrating infrastructures using tools such as Terraform, Tekton, operators(Tekton and Flux), and CI/CD orchestrators such as ArgoCD. In addition, I became familiar with the use of environments such as Kubernetes and integrations with external services for managing secrets.
Nologin
Cyber Security Student | Jul 2022 - Ago 2022
During my university internship, I joined a cybersecurity team to help in the day to day duties by performing certain tasks such as:
- Generation of automatic alerts through the generation of “QRadar” SIEM use cases.
- Configuration and modification of rules in Palo Alto Firewall and analysis of the generated reports.
- Use of orchestrators in the field of cyber security, such as Cortex XSOAR.
- Creation and execution of internal phishing campaigns.
- Development of a platform to check which web pages are safe through integrations with other services such as Sodan, Virus Total, etc.
Skills
Nmap, Ffuf, Gobuster, Dirbuster, Burp Suite, ZAP, Tcpdump, Wireshark, Hashcat, John the Ripper, Python, sqlmap, Bash Scripting, CrackMapExec, Mimikatz, more in my GitHub
Languages
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| Native speaker | Intermediate |
Regarding my English level, I have participated in several exchange programs in England living with native families, and I have collaborated with an architecture platform, WinnersDaily, where the main language was English.
Education
University of Zaragoza
Bachelor, Information Technology | Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
- Final Degree Project – Distinction
- Project Software Course – Distinction
