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Hi, my name is Benny

Benny Temmerman

Cybersecurity engineer at Orange Cyberdefense

A SIEM-focused Cybersecurity Engineer with experience across Splunk, Azure Sentinel, and modern log management tools like Cribl. Skilled at working across on-prem and cloud environments, with hands-on knowledge of Azure, Linux, Proxmox, and containerization. Passionate about automation, scripting, and operational efficiency — with growing experience in Python, Ansible, and Go. Someone who combines real-world incident handling with homelab tinkering, contributing to production systems and building personal projects alike.

Certified Splunk Enterprise Admin
Cribl Certified Admin - Stream
Comptia Linux+
Documentation
Hands-on SIEM experience
Scripting & Automation

Skills

Experiences

1
Orange Cyberdefense

Sep 2022 - Present

Brussels, Belgium

Orange Cyberdefense is the expert cybersecurity business unit of the Orange Group, providing managed security, managed threat detection & response services to organizations globally.

SIEM specialist

Sep 2022 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Handle customer cases
  • Manage, monitor and operate SIEM
  • collaborate with other teams

Orbid

May 2019 - Aug 2022

Merelbeke, Belgium

Provide support for customers in ICT, HR and software projects

System Engineer

May 2019 - Aug 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Remote & on-site support
  • System administration
  • Documentation
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3
ICT Talents (Next-ICT)

May 2019 - Jul 2020

Belgium

At ICT Talents, we combine a passion for IT with comprehensive HR services for consultants, freelancers, and clients.

IT Consultant

May 2019 - Jul 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Helpdesk (outsourced)

Education

IT Network Technician
IT management

Projects

Proxmox Homelab
Proxmox Homelab
Owner April 2021 - Present

Homelab environment for project testing

POC, Bruteforce Splunk-Hydra
POC, Bruteforce Splunk-Hydra
Blue team Aug 2022

Setting up demonstration to use in interview for SOC analyst role

New portfolio website
New portfolio website
Owner April 2025 - Present

Complete project from buying domain, configuring DNS, creating mailbox, using Github combined with Netlify. A more attractive website showcasing my work.

Killercoda
Creator Aug 2024

Creating interactive instances to learn how to set up Splunk environments.

Featured Posts

Accomplishments

Learning Python on boot.dev
Boot.dev Jan 2025 - May 2025

Multiple courses, learning Python in a self-paced gamified learning platform which covers topics like scripting, object oriented programming (OOP), functional programming.

Learning about GIT and CI/CD
Boot.dev March 2025

To add more value at work and help out our senior techleads finetune our service, I decided to dive into CI/CD and Git. I genuinly enjoyed this course a lot about version control and unit testing.

Learning about Microsoft Azure Sentinel
Microsoft Sep 2024 - now

A new service to support, so time to get some hands-on practice! A Microsoft learning module to explain Azure Sentinel helped me navigating the tool to investigate incidents. Also documented my findings inhouse for future reference for my colleagues and myself.

MITRE ATT&CK
ATTACKIQ July 2021

While Redteaming can be exciting (depending on the scope), I always had a preference for blueteaming, strengthening systems, learning and applying general cybersecurity concepts AND logs! Lots of logs!! I was a system engineer when I wanted to explore more about cybersecurity, following this course and setting up a Splunk SIEM at home was my first step.