CYBERSECURITY · BUILDER · PROBLEM SOLVER

Kordell
Boehning.

Cybersecurity student at BYU–Idaho building secure systems, useful products, and the instincts to defend them.

kordell.xyz● SECURE
PORTFOLIO / 2026

Kordell
Boehning.

CYBERSECURITY · BUILDER · PROBLEM SOLVER

01ReelTalkPRODUCT
02Home SOCSECURITY
03Network LabDEFENSE
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Black and white professional portrait of Kordell Boehning
PORTRAIT / 2026KORDELL BOEHNING
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01 / INTRODUCTION

Security mindset.
Builder's curiosity.

I'm Kordell, a cybersecurity student who learns by building—whether that's a social movie app, a home SOC, or a segmented enterprise network.

EXPLORE MY WORK

02 / SELECTED WORK

Projects with
purpose.

From product thinking to packet flows, I build projects that make me a sharper, more versatile defender.

01FULL-STACK PRODUCT
ReelTalk user profile showing favorite movies
ReelTalk discover screen showing trending movies
ReelTalk AI movie recommendation chat
REAL APP SCREENS · iOS

ReelTalk

A social home for movie lovers—built around reviews, conversation, discovery, and the delightful problem of agreeing on what to watch.

Supabase backendAI movie discoveryReal-time party mode
02SECURITY OPERATIONS
splunk>
SECURITY OVERVIEW — LIVE

Home SOC Lab

A hands-on Splunk environment spanning three machines, built to practice log ingestion, dashboard analysis, and alert creation.

Splunk EnterpriseUniversal ForwarderCustom alerts
03NETWORK SECURITY
INTERNETPA
DMZ
WEB · LB · WEB
FGSECURE LAN

Layered Enterprise Network

A defense-in-depth network with a Palo Alto edge, segmented DMZ, FortiGate internal firewall, and dedicated monitoring stack.

Dual firewallsDMZ + load balancerSecurity Onion

03 / ABOUT

Learning at the edge of offense & defense.

At BYU–Idaho, I'm building the technical foundation to protect modern systems. Outside the classroom, I volunteer with the BYU-I SOC, supporting security work that helps the City of Rexburg.

10HOURS IN THE
BYU-I SOC
03MAJOR HANDS-ON
PROJECTS
MONITORANALYZEDEFEND

MY CURRENT TOOLKIT

SplunkSecurity OnionPalo AltoFortiGateActive DirectorySupabase

04 / CERTIFICATIONS

Credentials built
through practice.

Industry certifications that reinforce my hands-on work across security operations and networking.

CERT / 01 EARNED

TCM SECURITY

Practical SOC Analyst Associate

Incident evaluation, attack reconstruction, and practical security operations analysis.

CERT / 02 EARNED

COMPTIA

Security+

Core security concepts, threats, vulnerabilities, architecture, operations, and incident response.

05 / CONTACT

Let's build something
worth protecting.

I'm currently looking for opportunities to grow in cybersecurity, security operations, and technical problem solving.

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