Cyber Security Enginner L1 — Airtel Africa (Airtel Digital)
Monitored and analyzed SIEM alerts to detect suspicious and malicious activity.
Performed incident triage, severity classification, and escalation.
Worked with EDR/XDR tools to investigate endpoint threats.
Assisted in cloud security monitoring and access control validation.
Projects
RCIMAT – AI-based real-time threat monitoring system
Universal Evasion Framework – Ethical research on detection evasion
C2 Infrastructure Security – Secure command & control design
mad-proxy – mad-proxy transparently hijacks HTTP/HTTPS traffic, enforces granular domain-level block/allow logic via YAML, and logs every event for live threat analysis.
Security Research, CVEs & Publications
CVE-2025-61767 – HTTPS Interception Policy Bypass
Discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical vulnerability in the mad-proxy open-source project allowing HTTPS policy bypass.
Identified desynchronization between TLS handshake/SNI validation and domain filtering logic.
Demonstrated how malicious HTTPS traffic could evade proxy security policies.
Developed and merged security patch (v0.4); recognized by GitHub Security Advisory and MITRE.
Accepted Conference Paper – CIST 2025
Paper accepted at Conference on Innovations in Science & Technology (CIST-2025), ITM Gida, Gorakhpur.
Accepted after peer review by the CIST Technical Committee.
First author; research recognized for innovation in security and technology.