Benson Kamotho

CEH and Certified CyberOps Associate with hands-on enterprise infrastructure experience and deep technical expertise across Linux and Windows environments. Leverages practical infrastructure experience from the State Department for Housing and Urban Development to specialize in network security engineering, with a focus on deploying Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), enforcing strict VLAN segmentation, implementing secure remote access, and conducting comprehensive vulnerability assessments. Deeply passionate about engineering resilient network architectures, identifying critical vulnerabilities, and continuously strengthening an organization's overall security posture.

ICT Trainee at State Department for Housing and Urban Development (2025-05 – 2025-08)

• Supported senior ICT infrastructure engineering teams in auditing and maintaining secure network access protocols across an enterprise government network environment.
• Hardened end-user computing baselines by executing Windows operating system installations, deploying secure system image configurations, and managing bare-metal system recovery plans.
• Minimized technical departmental downtime by utilizing structured troubleshooting diagnostics to isolate and resolve complex hardware faults, network access issues, and internal software errors.
• Maintained and audited technical standard operating procedures (SOPs), establishing consistent tracking documentation and knowledge-base references for technical support personnel.

BSc. in Computer Security and Forensics – Meru University of Science and Technology (2022-08 – 2026-10)