Bryce Horton

Aspiring cybersecurity student with a couple years of hardware/network experience. I recently graduated and I'm very excited to begin and continue my career in cybersecurity. I am committed to becoming the best I can be in this field!

• NOCTI Cybersecurity Fundamentals (March 2025)
• CompTIA Security Pro (May 2025)
• CompTIA Security+ (June 2025)

Network Exploitation Lab, Exploited 5+ CVEs (e.g., CVE-2017-7494) using Metasploit and Python scripts against Metasploitable2., Gained root access to vulnerable services (vsFTPd, Samba) via PostgreSQL credential dumping., Intrusion Prevention System Lab, Configured Snort rules to detect and block 10+ simulated attacks (port scans, SQLi)., Reduced false positives by a large percentage through custom rule tuning., Vulnerability Assessment Lab, Scanned 15+ virtual machines, identifying and patching 12 critical vulnerabilities along with remediating issues with user accounts.

DECA | Competitor, Cybersecurity Case Study Event (2025) National Technical Honor Society | Member SkillsUSA | Member MetaCTF | Participant

• National Technical Honor Society