Cyber Defense Student
and Homelab Builder

I am building hands on experience in blue team, red team, network defense, and real world IT support through a growing homelab, academic projects, and day to day troubleshooting work.

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Current Focus

SOC workflows, VLAN segmentation, Proxmox, Security Onion, Active Directory, and practical cybersecurity skill building.

  • Cyber Defense student graduating in 2026
  • Help Desk Technician supporting Windows and Linux
  • Building a segmented home lab for blue and red team practice

About Me

I am a Cyber Defense student at Davenport University with an Bachelors degree in CyberDefense, hands on IT support experience, and a strong interest in security operations, incident response, and offensive security fundamentals. I enjoy building realistic lab environments to learn by doing.

Featured Projects

Segmented Cybersecurity Homelab

Built with Proxmox, VLANs, OPNsense, Pi-hole, WireGuard, and Windows/Linux systems to practice realistic attack and defense scenarios.

Security Onion Monitoring Environment

Configured monitoring across lab traffic to learn alerting, network visibility, and SOC style analysis workflows.

School Network Security Design

Capstone project focused on layered defenses, segmentation, endpoint security, and deployable network architecture in Packet Tracer.

Skills

Infrastructure

Proxmox, VLANs, OPNsense, Cisco switching, DNS, VPNs, Active Directory

Security

Security Onion, Windows hardening, network segmentation, monitoring, access control, lab simulations

Support

Windows and Linux troubleshooting, print services, user support, documentation, deployment workflows

Contact

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GitHub: github.com/notxes
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matthew-sexton-858699362/
Email: msexton@notxes.com