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salvomazzaglia/README.md

Hi, I'm Salvatore Mazzaglia 👋

System Administrator | Cybersecurity | Infrastructure Automation

I work across system administration, infrastructure, networking and defensive security, with a strong focus on automation, security hardening, detection, monitoring and reproducible technical workflows.

My GitHub portfolio contains practical projects built around real-world system administration and cybersecurity scenarios — from Active Directory security assessment and incident triage to network segmentation, detection engineering and infrastructure automation.

I use AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, documentation and CI/CD, while keeping technical validation and final decisions human-reviewed.


🛡️ What I work on

  • Windows & Active Directory administration
  • Linux & Ubuntu Server
  • Network architecture and segmentation
  • Defensive security and system hardening
  • Detection Engineering & Sigma
  • Incident Response & DFIR
  • Docker and container security
  • Infrastructure automation with Ansible
  • PowerShell, Python and Bash automation
  • GitHub Actions and CI/CD
  • Virtualization with Proxmox
  • Firewalling and network security with OPNsense

🚀 Featured Projects

🌐 Secure Network Segmentation Lab

Network security architecture, device classification and interactive topology

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Privacy-first network segmentation lab focused on:

  • network segmentation and security zones
  • explainable device classification
  • quarantine workflows
  • reachability and policy analysis
  • synthetic network simulation
  • RADIUS-based network access concepts
  • interactive 3D network topology
  • wired, wireless and logical network visualization

Tech: Python · React · TypeScript · Three.js · Networking · RADIUS · Cybersecurity


🎯 Sigma Detection Engineering Lab

Detection-as-Code and SOC-oriented security engineering

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Offline detection engineering lab for developing and validating original Sigma detections.

Includes:

  • original Sigma rules
  • synthetic behavioral testing
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • detection coverage analysis
  • positive and negative test cases
  • pySigma query conversion
  • SIEM-oriented workflows
  • automated validation

Tech: Python · Sigma · MITRE ATT&CK · Pytest · Splunk · Elasticsearch · PowerShell


🔐 Active Directory Security Posture Auditor

Read-only Active Directory security assessment

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PowerShell-first security auditing toolkit covering:

  • privileged access
  • Kerberos security
  • Windows LAPS
  • Group Policy
  • Active Directory ACLs
  • security posture assessment
  • offline configuration drift analysis

Designed around defensive, minimally invasive and reproducible assessment workflows.

Tech: PowerShell · Active Directory · Windows Server · Kerberos · Group Policy · Pester


⚙️ Ansible Infrastructure Automation Lab

Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management

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Infrastructure automation lab built around reusable Ansible roles and repeatable configuration management.

Includes:

  • reusable roles
  • automated server configuration
  • Ansible check mode
  • configuration drift reporting
  • idempotence validation
  • Molecule testing
  • GitHub Actions CI

Tech: Ansible · Linux · YAML · Jinja2 · Molecule · GitHub Actions


🔎 Endpoint Incident Triage

Cross-platform DFIR and evidence collection

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Defensive incident-response toolkit designed for minimally invasive endpoint triage.

Features include:

  • evidence collection
  • integrity verification
  • UTC timeline generation
  • structured reporting
  • privacy-aware workflows
  • cross-platform support

Tech: Python · PowerShell · Bash · DFIR · Incident Response · Pytest


🐳 Container Security Baseline

Docker security analysis and policy-as-code

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Offline security analyzer for Docker Compose and Dockerfile configurations.

Includes:

  • security baseline checks
  • policy-as-code
  • secret-safe reporting
  • security scoring
  • SARIF output
  • proposed remediation guidance
  • automated testing

Tech: Python · Docker · Docker Compose · Dockerfile · Pytest · SARIF


🧰 More Projects

📡 Network Device Watch

Passive network-device inventory, classification and event detection with privacy-aware reporting.

Repository

🐧 Self-Hosted Runner Hardening Lab

Hardening, auditing and operational security for Linux GitHub Actions self-hosted runners.

Repository

💾 Backup Integrity Verifier

Cross-platform backup freshness, integrity, archive-safety and restore-readiness verification.

Repository

🖥️ Sysadmin Health Check

Read-only Windows system health assessment and automated JSON/HTML reporting.

Repository


🧰 Technologies

Systems & Infrastructure

Windows Windows Server Active Directory Linux Ubuntu Server Proxmox OPNsense Docker

Networking

TCP/IP VLANs Network Segmentation Firewalling RADIUS Network Monitoring

Cybersecurity

Security Hardening Security Auditing DFIR Incident Response Detection Engineering Sigma MITRE ATT&CK Container Security

Automation & Development

PowerShell Python Bash Ansible YAML Git GitHub Actions CI/CD Pytest Pester Molecule


🧪 Engineering Approach

Across my projects I focus on:

  • Read-only or minimally invasive operation where possible
  • Reproducible and automated testing
  • Defensive and authorized security use
  • Structured and machine-readable reporting
  • Privacy-aware data handling
  • Explicit handling of uncertainty and inferred data
  • Configuration validation and drift detection
  • CI/CD-based quality gates
  • Clear documentation and reproducible environments
  • Separation between collection, analysis and decision-making

🤖 AI-Assisted Engineering

I use AI-assisted development as part of my engineering workflow for:

  • implementation support
  • test generation and expansion
  • code review assistance
  • documentation
  • CI/CD workflow development
  • troubleshooting and iterative validation

AI is used as an engineering accelerator, while architecture decisions, security assumptions, testing and final validation remain human-controlled.


🎯 Current Focus

I'm continuing to deepen my skills across:

System Administration · Cybersecurity · Blue Team · Infrastructure Security · Automation · Detection Engineering · DevSecOps


🤝 Connect

LinkedIn · GitHub Repositories

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  1. sysadmin-health-check sysadmin-health-check Public

    Read-only PowerShell utility for Windows system health assessment, troubleshooting, and standalone JSON/HTML reporting.

    PowerShell

  2. backup-integrity-verifier backup-integrity-verifier Public

    Cross-platform Python utility for backup freshness, integrity, archive safety, and restore-readiness verification.

    Python

  3. network-device-watch network-device-watch Public

    Defensive Python utility for passive network-device inventory, policy-based classification, event detection, and privacy-aware reporting.

    Python

  4. self-hosted-runner-hardening-lab self-hosted-runner-hardening-lab Public

    Security-focused Bash and systemd toolkit for hardening, auditing, and operating Linux GitHub Actions self-hosted runners.

    Shell

  5. endpoint-incident-triage endpoint-incident-triage Public

    Cross-platform DFIR toolkit for minimally invasive endpoint triage, evidence integrity verification, UTC timelines, and privacy-aware reporting.

    Python

  6. container-security-baseline container-security-baseline Public

    Offline Docker Compose and Dockerfile security analyzer with policy-as-code, secret-safe reporting, SARIF, scoring, and proposed remediations.

    Python