Cybersecurity Analyst Resume Example
Cybersecurity professional with 6 years of progressive experience in the field. Demonstrated skill identifying business risks and compliance issues and designing proactive solutions. Background designing and implementing layered network security approaches.
Highly experienced information security professional with vast experience in complete security solution, security information event management, vulnerability scanning, andapplication/system security management. Possess an outstanding communication, great interpersonal and leadership skills.
In search of an opportunity that offers growth, challenges and responsibilities as a successful security analyst/consultant or vulnerability assessor in a well-established organization.
Metairie , LA11/2016 - Current
- Part of the monitoring and incident response team
- Ensures proper log monitoring, reporting and escalation of non-compliant activity
- Design training manuals to increase security awareness throughout the organization since humans are the weakest link in security.
- Use Wireshark as a protocol analyzer to capture packets/network traffic in order to detect unusual levels of network traffic, unusual packet characteristics, and identify packet sources or their destinations.
- Integrate applications on applications on Splunk Enterprise
- Perform vulnerability assessments using Qualys and Nessus on the system to check for any weaknesses/anomalies in the services and ports, and any potential paths that might be discovered by bad actors with exploited by programs or scripts. It helps to mitigate risk and potential threats to the system.
- Analyze and monitored incoming security events using IDS, IPS, SIEM tools, which helps detect anomalies and possible malicious attacks to the network/system
- Support access requests, modifications and permissions to prevent privilege escalation on Splunk
- Create queries, dashboards, alerts and visualizations to support customer requirements and monitoring of the Splunk Enterprise deployment, which helps non-splunk savvy employees to easily get data
- Made use of risk mitigation tools like Anti-Virus, IDS/IPS, Wireshark to helps mitigate threat
- Support onboarding and maintenance of a wide variety of data sources to include various OS, appliance, and application logs ensuring the right access levels are granted
- Demonstrated understanding of modern Identity & Access Management concepts and best practices
- Create and manage alerts (scheduled and real time) which helps to detect any possible anomalies in the system like brute force attacks, foreign ips etc using Splunk
- Use Splunk Enterprise Security to review incidents
- Performed data ingestion into Splunk
- Using various commands on the search head of Splunk Enterprise to produce desired reports/results
- Establish collaborative working relations with the Information Technology functions to ensure that solutions align with the security architecture and business strategy.
- Very knowledgeable in PCI DSS, and HIPAA compliance
- Implement SOC 2 compliance to maintain the CIA triad and privacy of customer data
- Create dashboards and reports in Splunk to make user interactivity easier
- Possess vast knowledge and some hands-on experience with Encryption, VPN tunnels, IDS, IPS, PKI, DMZ and DNS
- Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
Omaha , NE06/2014 - 10/2016
- Participated in weekly meetings with client to discuss project direction and milestone achievement.
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Deployed over 100 AWS Workspaces and AppStream 2.0 for remote employees and contractors.
- Managed AWS-provided portal account access credentials and privileges.
- Recommended and managed transmission protection requirements for all environments (systems, applications, containers, etc.) such as VPC peering best practices, SSL certificate management, key pairs, etc.
- Administered IT-monitoring toolsets like AWS CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.
- Knowledge of networking, IAM, and security assessment tools/methodologies.
- As a last line of defense against a compromised account, I ensured all IAM users have multi-factor authentication activated for their individual accounts and limited the number of IAM users with administrative privileges.
- Designed and implemented scalable solutions in the cloud environment leveraging cloud enterprise technology and services in AWS such as AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, and ELB.
- Ensured compliance to defined privileged user access controls.
- Understanding of the cyber threat landscape and methodologies to protect technology assets.
- Assisted with designed and security oversight of next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, DDoS solutions, SSL-terminating load balancers, WAF, security groups and NACL.
- Rotated IAM access keys regularly and standardize on a selected number of days for password expiration to ensure that data cannot be accessed with a potential lost or stolen key.
Palmyra , MO05/2012 - 06/2014
- Assisted physicians in composing progress notes, using Epic smart tools such as smart texts, smart phrases, smart lists and smart links.
- Administered support to providers as orders were placed using the medications and orders activity/sets.
- Supported with the system personalization, including, but not limited to, building preference lists, and smart phrases.
- Assisted nurses as they documented the administration of medications in the MAR activity and assessments on the doc flow sheet.
- Hands on experience with Cerner and Epic applications, including MyChart, Haiku and Canto
- Assisted providers with chart review activity to review historical and current data for their patients and located pertinent information.
- Experience supporting both M* Modal and Dragon for speech dictation
Charlotte , NC07/2010 - 05/2012
- Conducted R&D on finishing the Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) pigment.
- Worked on various hydrophilic TiO2 grades: CR-826, CR-828, CR-813, CR-826 slurry, and CR-813 slurry.
- Performed various projects in improving the bulk density, tint strength, tint tone, durability, pigment wetting, and reducing the wash time of the treatment.
- Carried out dispersions, sand-milling, treatments, prilling, micronizing on the various TiO2 pigment grades.
- Conducted plant trials
City , STATE06/2008 - 07/2010
- Opening and closing personal and business accounts.
- Placing holds on accounts and monitoring them for suspicious activities
- Ordering and deactivating debit cards
- Notary public.
Nessus, Qulays, NIST Framework, Splunk
Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation, Wireshark , Qualys
SIEM, EC2, Incidence Response, Cloud Security
WAF, OWASP Top 10, Data Ingestion
Virus Total, Attention to details
Excellent interpersonal skills and attention to details
Splunk Knowledge Objects, Social Engineering Skills
VDI VMware and VPN (Cisco Anyconnect)
S3, VPC, Snort, Tripwire, AWS Shield, IAM (Identity Access Management)
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS Compliances
Effective communication
Team player, Team management,Problem resolution and excellent communications skills
- PCI Compliance
- Incident Response Management
Certification in Cybersecurity and Information Security, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
CompTIA Security+ SY0-501
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
AWS Certified Big Data
Splunk Core Certified User
Splunk Core Certified Power User
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - In Progress
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School Attended
- University of Central Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City Community College
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Degrees
- Bachelor of Science : Chemistry
Associate of Science : Pharmacy (Pre-Pharmacy)
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