Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
Penn State University · Second-year student
I am Ilham Zaman, a second-year Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations student at Penn State and an aspiring DevOps and infrastructure engineer.
I use my home lab to turn classroom concepts into practical systems experience. Instead of only reading about virtualization, Linux administration, networking, storage, monitoring, and automation, I operate services and learn what happens when real systems need to be maintained, secured, documented, and recovered.
My current direction sits at the intersection of DevOps, infrastructure engineering, DevSecOps, and secure systems operations. I am especially interested in making infrastructure repeatable, observable, and easier to recover.
Penn State University · Second-year student
Expanding my foundation in enterprise technology, systems, and applied IT.
Building a broader understanding of security risk, threat analysis, and organizational decision-making.
Strengthening systems administration, routing, DNS, packet analysis, segmentation, and defensive security fundamentals.
Using Terraform and Ansible to reduce repetitive setup, configuration drift, and undocumented changes.
Improving health visibility, alerting, backup planning, recovery procedures, and service documentation.
Translating hands-on home-lab work into the judgment and communication expected in infrastructure and security roles.