Oluwanifemi Felix Oyeniyi

In their words.

I came into UBI with three certifications and a home SOC lab I had built myself, thinking I already understood how to investigate an incident. Four stages later, I know the difference between reading a log line and understanding what it means.

The moment that changed how I think about this work happened in Stage 0. I was tracing a dismissed security ticket, closed with the note “probably nothing.” When I found the field that recorded who closed it, it named the same account the alert was about. The analyst had dismissed the alert on himself. No certification had taught me to look for that.

I finished the programme having been promoted to Cyber Core Associate, with a binding decision made on my specialisation: SOC Analysis. Not because it was the most impressive work across four stages, but because it is the work I kept returning to on my own, past the point where anyone was grading it.