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Edric Kristian
Gantes
Cybersecurity Professional | Security Operations
The Analyst Behind the Defense
I am a cybersecurity professional specializing in Security Operations Center (SOC) and Network Operations Center (NOC) environments. My expertise spans security monitoring, threat detection, incident investigation, threat hunting, SIEM analysis, infrastructure monitoring, and operational troubleshooting.
My long-term focus is on SOC architecture and engineering — designing, building, and optimizing the pipelines, platforms, and detection logic that power effective security operations. I'm actively building toward this through hands-on lab work (including a personal Wazuh SOC lab), and by developing a stronger networking foundation through the Cisco CCNA.
Beyond cybersecurity, I maintain a strong interest in electronics technology, emerging technologies, automation, and continuous professional development.
Technical Skills & Competencies
Core capabilities forged through hands-on enterprise operations, threat research, and continuous certification.
Platform Arsenal
Experience & Focus Areas
Hands-on enterprise security and network operations across 24/7 SOC & NOC environments.
Featured Projects
Personal SOC lab builds, security architecture experiments, and hands-on blue team engineering.
Expanded the lab with a Windows endpoint running Sysmon for process creation, authentication, and service telemetry. Enabled the Vulnerability Detector and investigated Filebeat's role as the indexer pipeline bridge. Every issue was debugged without guided tutorials — using tcpdump, log inspection, documentation, and LLM-assisted analysis.
⚠ In active development. Planned expansions include File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), deeper detection rule tuning, additional Windows telemetry sources, and further SOC architecture experimentation aligned with a long-term goal of building and engineering full SOC environments.
Certifications & Licenses
Industry-recognized credentials spanning security operations, endpoint protection, network fundamentals, and threat intelligence.
Operational Metrics
Key Achievements
LinkedIn Recommendations
What colleagues and leads say about working with Edric.
Individuals like him are rare in this industry. He embodies what a true NSOC Analyst should be — structured, systematic, resourceful, and highly dependable.
He adapted quickly to real-time monitoring and incident triage, consistently demonstrating curiosity, resilience, and a strong commitment to improving his skills.
He demonstrates strong critical thinking by conducting detailed analyses before escalating incidents — and even built his own homelab to expand his knowledge beyond his role.
Academic Foundation
In security, silence is not safety, it is often the absence of detection.— Edric Kristian Gantes
Let's Work Together
Interested in cybersecurity, network operations, or collaboration? Let's connect.
Open to Opportunities
Passionate about defending digital environments through proactive monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and continuous improvement.