Hassan Ibrahim

After KAUST Academy

As of October 2026, Hassan is an undergraduate student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Hassan completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in September 2026 and won 2nd place with the team SABBAQ at the AgentX AI hackathon in October 2026.

Summer project

Cybersecurity Specialization · Cohort 2026

APT-29 LOTL Adversary Emulation in Active Directory Environment, Threat Hunting, and Incident Response

This project focuses on safely emulating APT29-inspired attack techniques in an isolated Active Directory environment using MITRE CALDERA. The attack activities are monitored through Elastic Security, Sysmon, Windows Event Logs, and PowerShell logging. The project includes detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, threat hunting using KQL/EQL, incident analysis, and remediation. The goal is to evaluate detection coverage, identify gaps, improve detection rules, and compare the environment before and after defensive hardening.

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