Zac Conlin

Systems Administrator

Cybersecurity Major - Computer Science Minor

Hey, I'm Zac!

I'm a third-year university student studying Cybersecurity and Computer Science at Brigham Young University. I'm currently working on finishing my BS and on getting my Net+ cert. In my free time, I enjoy doing Capture the Flag competitions and building my homelab.

Outside of computers, I love playing sports (soccer in particular), hiking, and reading. I'm also a performer, and can often be found dancing or singing with my collegiate choir.

Sep 2022 - Present

Systems Administrator

Brigham Young University: Campus Life Technology

- Managed and provided backend support for over 200 users in BYU’s Campus Life Technology department
- Maintained, updated, and improved 5 server clusters hosting 23 websites for the BYU Student Life Technology department
- Configured 2 new server clusters which include production and development servers, corresponding proxies, and relational databases. Hardened with firewalls and password policies
- Collaborated with a team of programmers to analyze and troubleshoot our systems, and keep the network up to date with the best current security practices

Linux Servers
Windows Servers
Scripting
Networking

June 2024 - Aug 2024

Incident Response Analyst (Intern)

ReliaQuest

- Analyzed and mitigated security events through network forensics, MITRE ATT&CK, and OSINT tools
- Worked daily in nearly all industry-grade enterprise-level SIEMS, EDRs, Next Gen Firewalls
---- Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, SentinelOne, MDE, IBM QRadar, Carbon Black, Proofpoint, CrowdStrike, LogRhythm, Windows Defender, Active Directory, Google Chronicle
- Documented security events through formal after-action reports for customer CISOs and CSMs

MITRE ATT&CK
Log Analysis
Network Forensics
SIEMs
EDRs

Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

Executive Assistant: France Paris Mission

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

- Hand selected to lead a stewardship of over 250 adults spread over 3 European countries (France, Belgium, and Luxembourg); taught English, French, and Chinese classes to over 100 individuals; provided aid to individuals, refugees, and city institutions
- Directed international banking, international transactions, and international housing agreements in French

Leadership
French
Mandarin (Chinese)
Adaptability



SearZ

SearZ

My self-hosted, privacy-respecting metasearch engine based on SearXNG (Temporarily Disabled...)

Self-Hosted
Privacy
SearZ

My Writeups

Check out my writeups for various cybersecurity challenges, boxes, and tutorials!

Tutorials
Writeups
Challenges
Bettr. YHack2024

Bettr.

My award-winning 24 hour hackathon project for a hackathon sponsored by an AI company, which won "Best Use of AI".

Hackathon
Machine Learning
Award

Coded in Visual Studio Code by me, built with Svelte, deployed by Vercel. Text is set in Manrope and Jetbrains Mono font. Also, the Konami Code is cool.

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