ENSA Khouribga — RIC / Cybersecurity 2024–Present

OTHMANE
NECHCHADI

// Cybersecurity & Intelligent Networks Engineer

Final-year engineering student at ENSA Khouribga, specialising in OT/ICS security, SOC operations, and threat detection. Passionate about securing industrial systems, building automated detection pipelines, and bridging the gap between IT and OT environments.

nechchadi@khouribga:~$
$ whoami
othmane.nechchadi

$ cat profile.json
{
  "role": "Cybersecurity Engineer",
  "school": "ENSA Khouribga",
  "focus": [
    "OT/ICS Security",
    "SOC / SIEM",
    "Threat Detection"
  ],
  "status": "Open to PFA 2026"
}

$ ping c2-server
BLOCKED — firewall active ✓

$
7+
Certifications
6+
Projects
OT
ICS / SCADA Focus
SOC
Wazuh · MITRE ATT&CK

Professional Background

Cybersecurity & Intelligent Networks Intern
July – August 2025
OCP Group — MIK/G/E/E (Eaux, Électricité & Télécommunications) · Khouribga, Morocco

Academic & Personal Work

SOC · Blue Team
Automated SOC Deployment & Detection Coverage
Designed and automatically deployed an open-source SOC architecture with Wazuh, OpenSearch, Sysmon and Auditd, orchestrated via Ansible. Centralised log ingestion, real-time threat correlation and detection coverage evaluation via MITRE ATT&CK Navigator. Metrics: MTTD, false-positive rate, coverage ratio.
Wazuh OpenSearch Ansible Sysmon MITRE ATT&CK Auditd
SIEM · EDR · Honeypot
SIEM/EDR, Keylogger & Honeypot Infrastructure
Full SOC lab under VirtualBox: pfSense firewall, Suricata IDS, Wazuh SIEM/EDR/FIM, Syslog-ng transport and automated Active Response. Real-time SYN Flood detection and blocking with custom decoders (filterlog, EVE JSON) and MITRE ATT&CK correlation.
pfSense Suricata Wazuh Syslog-ng VirtualBox
GRC · Risk Analysis
Risk Analysis — ISO 27005 / EBIOS RM
Complete threat modelling on a vaccine laboratory scenario: attacker profiling, attack path mapping, MITRE ATT&CK alignment, risk scoring and treatment plan generation following ISO 27005 and EBIOS RM methodologies.
ISO 27005 EBIOS RM MITRE ATT&CK STRIDE
Malware Analysis
Static & Dynamic Malware Analysis — brbbot.exe
Full malware analysis lab on brbbot.exe in an isolated VirtualBox environment. Static analysis via PEStudio (imports, entropy, hashes), dynamic analysis via Procmon and Regshot (+227,852 registry keys delta). IoC identification and C2 behaviour classification.
PEStudio Procmon Regshot Sysmon VirtualBox
Virtualisation · Storage
iSCSI Configuration — ESXi & TrueNAS
Lab deployment of an iSCSI SAN between VMware ESXi (Type-1 hypervisor) and TrueNAS in a VMware Workstation environment. Storage target configuration, initiator mapping and datastore provisioning.
VMware ESXi TrueNAS iSCSI VMware Workstation
Web · Dev
Task Management Web Application
Full-stack task management platform developed with HTML, CSS, PHP and XAMPP with MySQL database integration for CRUD operations, user sessions and task tracking.
PHP HTML/CSS MySQL XAMPP

Credentials

☁️
AWS Cloud Security Foundations
Amazon Web Services · Academy
2026 · 20h · Verify ↗
🔒
HCIA-Security V4.0
Huawei
2026
🛡️
Network Security
Cisco Networking Academy · ENSA Khouribga
Dec 2025
🌐
CCNA: Switching, Routing & Wireless
Cisco Networking Academy · ENSA Khouribga
Sep 2025
📡
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Cisco
2024
🏗️
Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)
Red Hat
2024
🔍
Introduction to the Threat Landscape 2.0
Fortinet
2024

Technical Stack

⚙ Operating Systems
Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL) Windows Server Kali Linux
🔐 Cybersecurity
ISO 27005 EBIOS RM MITRE ATT&CK STRIDE OWASP EDR/XDR SIEM IDS/IPS PKI IPsec
🌐 Networks & Protocols
TCP/IP SSH MQTT Modbus TCP CAN DNP3 SCADA VPN ACL/NAT
🛠 Security Tools
Wazuh Suricata pfSense Wireshark Nmap PEStudio Procmon Regshot Sysmon
💻 Scripting & Dev
Python Bash PowerShell C LaTeX Git
☁ Cloud & Virtualisation
AWS (IAM/EC2/Lambda) VMware ESXi Hyper-V VirtualBox TrueNAS Ansible

Let's Connect

I'm actively looking for a 6-month end-of-studies internship (PFA) in cybersecurity — OT/ICS security, SOC operations, PKI, or critical systems.

Feel free to reach out on any channel below.

$ Available for PFA internship — 2026
$ Location: Morocco · Open to relocation
$ Languages: French · English · Arabic