I'm Onur

Projects.

APT Emulation and Detection in ICS/OT

A3-graded MSci project: built a Purdue-segmented ICS testbed with physical Siemens PLCs and used MITRE Caldera to emulate and reconstruct multi-stage APT attack chains.

SANS Capture The Flag Finalist

Reached the final round of a UK government-sponsored SANS CTF, applying practical investigation and problem-solving skills across security challenges.

Federated Learning for Network Intrusion Detection

Developed privacy-preserving intrusion-detection models on UNSW-NB15 and explored how random-forest models can be merged across distributed clients.

Secure Self-Hosted Portfolio

Originally self-hosted with Docker and Nginx on Oracle Cloud, this Next.js portfolio now runs on Vercel, with a custom local editing workflow.

Text-based Pokémon-like game and Solitaire

Made text-based games using Java and Haskell.

Project Website

Designed a website as part of our course with seven other teammates.

Self-Hosted Security Home Lab

A Raspberry Pi and Docker environment for practising Linux administration, networking, DNS filtering, VPN-gated access, service hardening and secure self-hosting.

Research interests.

About.

I am Mustafa Onur Cay, but I go by Onur. I am a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow exploring cybersecurity and resilience in connected energy systems. I completed an MSci in Computing Science with Honours and a specialism in Cybersecurity. My previous research includes APT emulation across industrial control systems, provenance-based attack analysis and federated learning for network intrusion detection. Alongside research, I enjoy building software, working with cloud infrastructure and maintaining my home lab.