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Cybersecurity & CTF

Competitive CTF play, a university security club, and hands-on offensive-security training, from network traffic analysis to bug-bounty recon.

  • Security
  • CTF
  • Networking
  • Recon

A genuine, ongoing interest in offensive and defensive security, built through competitions, a university club, and dedicated training.

Competing

I compete in capture-the-flag events across Iceland and the Nordics:

  • Telia Cyber Battle of Nordic-Baltic 2024
  • Gagnaglíman CTF tournaments

Between events I train regularly on CTF practice platforms.

CySec at Reykjavík University

As an active member of CySec, Reykjavík University’s cybersecurity club, I took part in and contributed in events covering honeypot deployment, network traffic analysis, and penetration-testing techniques.

Training & bug bounty

Selected by Reykjavík University, I attended Arcanum’s reconnaissance course from Jason Haddix (The Bug Hunter’s Methodology), covering advanced recon, attack-surface mapping, and bug-bounty hunting. I’m also registered as an ethical hacker (defender) on Defend Iceland, the national bug-bounty platform that brings together ethical hackers to find vulnerabilities across Iceland’s digital infrastructure.