Sergii Nesterenko
Personal website: sergnesterenko.com.ua
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/sergii-nesterenko
Technical/Content/ Copy Writer
High qualified Technical/Content Writer with the extended hands-on experience in cybersecurity technologies.
Excel at creating various types of writing content including feature articles, blog entries, tech documentation, white papers, books, reports, training courses, etc.
Strong interpersonal communication skills and successful experience in remote working in multicultural teams.
7 years of hands-on experience in diversity of cybersecurity domains including network and web-application defense, vulnerability assessment, social engineering prevention and penetration testing.
The author of many publications on cybersecurity issues and training video courses “Cybersecurity attack: Red Team Activity”, “Cybersecurity: Methods of Protection (Blue Team Activity)” and “The secrets of OSINT (Open-source intelligence). Become James Bond of the Internet and find out everything about anyone”.
The combination of the professional writing skills and technical expertise enables me to make complicated technical issues clear to various audiences.
Area of expertise
Writing
Creating content of various types both on technical and non-technical topics
Mastery of making sophisticated highly specialized subjects understandable and engaging for a broad audience
Deep understanding of readers’ psychology to create immersive and engaging stories
Excellent knowledge in writing of various genres
Logical thinking to build a well- structured narrative for easy understanding and remembering information
IT Technologies
Wide and in-depth, hands-on knowledge on modern cyber threats, cyberattacks and appropriate countermeasures
Penetration Testing
Websites and web-application security audit
Risk audit and vulnerability assessment
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods and tools
Teaching staff cybersecurity rules and skills
Training staff for resilience to social engineering attacks and cyber fraud
Tech skills
Platforms: Windows (7, 8, 10), Linux (Kali, Ubuntu)
Languages: Python, Java(basics)
Network: LAN/WLAN, OSI, TCP/IP, defense methods
Variety of security and penetration testing tools like Metasploit, Wireshark, OwaspZap, Burp Suite, Nmap etc.
Proficient with MS Office
Basic education: Kiev National University, bachelor‘s degree in journalism.
Additional education: Various (nearly 30 in general) courses on IT, mostly Cybersecurity related (2011 – and so far)
Languages: English – advanced (confirmed by living on my own in the USA for a while on the invitation of the US Government and working for the USA and UK- based companies).
Ukrainian, Russian – native.
Relevant professional experience
Udemy.com
Trainer, Instructor
May 2019 –till now
Creating a video course:
“The secrets of OSINT (Open-source intelligence). Become James Bond of the Internet and find out everything about anyone”.
Comodo Cybersecurity
Technical/Content Writer
December 2017 – 2019
Responsibilities
Creating content for Comodo blog about various cybersecurity and malware-related issues (https://blog.comodo.com).
Transforming malware analysts findings in articles for the broad audience
Creating Quarter Global Comodo cybersecurity reports (https://enterprise.comodo.com/comodo-2018-threat-research-q1report/?af=7639)
(https://www.comodo.com/public/report/communications.php?af=763)
Creating malware description database
Creating presentations for Comodo CEOs
Creating Manuals for clients on cybersecurity topics
Creating other types of writing like special letters for clients and employees.
Creating texts to promote Comodo products
Packt Publishing House
Author
August 2017 – present
Creating educational video courses:
“Cybersecurity attacks: Red team activity” (https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/cybersecurity-attacks-red-team-activity-video)
“Cybersecurity: methods of protection (Blue team activity)” (https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/video/networking_and_servers/-)
Information security consultant, self-employed
February 2012 – August 2017
Activities:
Providing various types of information security protection for clientele on confidential bases.
Websites and network security testing.
OSINT.
Security audit.
Risk assessment.
Cyber incidents investigation.
Teaching technical and psychological defense against social engineering attacks.
Recovering information and reputation losses after incidents.
Writing articles on hot cybersecurity topics, participating in conferences and seminar forums as a speaker on information security issues, (detailed information is available on my website https://sergnesterenko.com.ua/
Personal and staff training for politicians, business and military.
Act as an expert on information security issues in mass media, on TV and radio channels. Author of many articles on security and cybersecurity issues as well (more information is available in my blog https://sergnesterenko.com.ua/ru/blog).
Media publications
My expert article about social engineering on techgenix.com portal:
“Social engineering attacks: how to defend against them and how to fight back” http://techgenix.com/social-engineering-attacks/
Additional skills
Analytical thinking, anti-fraud technologies (have many publications and book on this topic), public relations.
References
Can be found on my LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/in/sergii-nesterenko
Additional information available upon request.
