Cybersecurity student, competitor, and builder.
My work centers on understanding how systems fail under real adversarial pressure, and turning that understanding into practical defenses, tooling, and documentation.
- Web Exploitation
- Attack/Defense environments and competition-style infrastructure
- Linux and Windows system hardening and auditing
- Binary exploitation (PWN) and reverse engineering
- Security automation and scripting
- Detection engineering, logging, and incident response workflows
These are my strongest and most consistent placements so far; they do not represent the full scope of events I compete in, and I continue to compete and improve across additional formats and challenges.
- National Cyber League (NCL)
- 8 / 446 (High School), Fall 2025
- 11 / 910 (High School), Spring 2025
- 7 / 571 (High School), Fall 2024
- CyberPatriot
- Platinum Division (Highest Tier) Semifinalist — 2025
- picoCTF
- 23 / 1817 (High School), 2025
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SynagogueCentral
A production platform for managing synagogue day-to-day operations
Laravel (PHP) · TailwindCSS -
Security Knowledge Base (Private)
A structured, execution-focused repository of security notes, commands, and workflows designed for rapid assessment and response -
CDC Setup & Security Toolkit
A custom toolkit for setting up a network, securing against attacks, and monitoring + auto-drafting intrusion reports; designed for the ISU CDCs but applicable to all
- GitHub: https://github.com/alex-cantor
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-cantor/
My goal is to build depth, not noise — and to leave systems measurably more secure than I found them.