Owen Reid

Academia

Ethical Hacking at Abertay University. Graduated with a 95% average.

Ethical Hacking, Abertay University

95% average

Degree focused on offensive security: penetration testing, malware analysis, secure development and security research.

Proactive Vulnerability Management: Automating CVE Tracking & Forecasting for Modern Organisations

Honours project

Vulnerability management is reactive, and existing forecasting only predicts global CVE volumes, which is useless to an IT manager who needs to know what is coming for the software they actually run. CVSS ignores organisational context. This project builds CVE tracking and forecasting at inventory granularity, so defence can be proactive.

Automating CVE Discovery

A+on request

Research on automating the discovery of known vulnerabilities through scripting, turning a manual audit process into a repeatable pipeline.

WannaCry Malware Analysis

A+on request

A full reverse-engineering analysis of the WannaCry ransomware: infection chain, kill switch, encryption behaviour and defensive lessons.

Web Penetration Test

Aon request

A 12,000-word penetration test of a web application following the OWASP methodology: SQL injection, stored XSS and traffic-encryption findings with remediation guidance.