Credentials

Eighteen credentials, weighted toward identity and cloud security.

Every badge links to its issuer for verification. The identity and cloud security ones are the core of what I do; the rest are the foundation under it. The courses behind them are on the training page.

18Active credentials
3Identity-focused
4AWS certifications
3On the runway
Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate badge
Google Cloud

Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate

Cloud security fundamentals with a Google Cloud focus: IAM, network defence, logging and incident handling.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate badge
Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Designing resilient, secure and cost-aware architectures on AWS.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate badge
Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Deploying, operating and troubleshooting workloads on AWS: monitoring, automation, networking and security controls.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner badge
Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Foundational AWS services, pricing, and the shared responsibility model.

Microsoft

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Cloud concepts, core Azure services, and Azure management and governance. Scored 873 / 1000.

Issued Apr 19, 2026950F3F-VB3714
Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) badge
Microsoft

Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)

Core data concepts and how relational, non-relational and analytics workloads are implemented on Azure.

Microsoft

Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)

The vocabulary of the Microsoft security stack: identity concepts, Entra ID, Defender, Purview and the shared responsibility model.

CompTIA Security+ CE badge
CompTIA

CompTIA Security+ CE

The baseline: threats, architecture, operations, and governance for a security practitioner.

Introduction to Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICIP) badge
OPSWAT

Introduction to Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICIP)

Critical infrastructure protection, OT and IT convergence, and the frameworks that govern them.

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate badge
Linux Foundation / CNCF

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration, cloud-native architecture, observability and application delivery.

Issued Sep 2025Expires Sep 2027
LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials badge
Linux Foundation

LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials

The Linux Foundation's foundation course for the cloud-native ecosystem and Kubernetes.

Multicloud Network Associate badge
Aviatrix

Multicloud Network Associate

Networking across AWS, Azure and GCP: VPC and VNet design, transit, and connectivity patterns.

Multicloud Network Operations Specialty badge
Aviatrix

Multicloud Network Operations Specialty

Operating and troubleshooting multicloud networks: visibility, segmentation and day-two operations.

Nothing in this group.

On the runway

Exam prep in flight.

Progress is the prep course, not the exam.

All training
Microsoft

Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Hands-on Azure administration: virtual networks, storage, identity, monitoring and resource management. The natural next step after AZ-900.

Prep course93%
Microsoft

Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)

Microsoft Sentinel and Defender: threat hunting, KQL, incident response and the SOC workflow on the Microsoft stack.

Prep course89%
TCM Security

Practical SOC Analyst Associate (PSAA)

A hands-on SOC exam: phishing analysis, endpoint and network telemetry, SIEM investigation and reporting.

SOC 101 course40%
Further out

Where the path points after the runway clears.

CISSPSecurity and risk management at the program level.
AWS Solutions Architect – ProfessionalEnterprise-scale AWS design.
AWS DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalCI/CD, IaC and monitoring on AWS.
Azure Solutions Architect ExpertCompute, network, storage and security design on Azure.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Cluster operations, networking and troubleshooting.
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateInfrastructure as code across providers.