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Early-career professional building practical experience

I am gaining hands-on experience now and shaping my career through real projects and learning.

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Practical work and projects that reflect my current skills and the areas I am exploring as I grow professionally.

  • vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship
    vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship
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    vCISO Services · ✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

    vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

    Be a junior security consultant. Find a company's weak spots, score them on NIST and create a deck for senior leaders.

    Website Security TestingSecurity Policy ReviewIncident Report AnalysisNIST CSF 2.0 Gap Analysis

About me

I am gaining hands-on experience now and shaping my career through real projects and learning.

I am Naod Merhawi. I have some work experience but consider myself at the start of my career, learning and building toward clearer professional goals.

Externships

vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

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Experience

Finance Assistant

Caramel Café & Loung e (Munyonyo) · Jun 2025 - Jun 2026

Education

International School Of Uganda

General Studies - High School Diploma · Class of 2025

Skills

Work experience (early career)Career explorationProject-based learningAccounting

✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

Be a junior security consultant. Find a company's weak spots, score them on NIST and create a deck for senior leaders.

Website Security TestingSecurity Policy ReviewIncident Report AnalysisNIST CSF 2.0 Gap Analysis

Overview

A vCISO Services externship in which the work assessed an organization's cybersecurity posture, mapped findings to the NIST framework, and produced materials for leadership. The project combined a threat-surface review with a scored risk register and presentation-ready slides.

vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

What I've accomplished

I conducted a structured client intake and scoping process, gathering context and constraints that guided the assessment and the risk-scoring approach.

Project breakdown

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