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Research Analyst Resume Profile

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Raleigh, NC

SUMMARY Experienced IT professional with a strong focus on Information Security. 4 years of Information Security experience along with 8 years of client interaction experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Work in a Security Operations Center SOC environment supporting internal networks for MSP subscribers
  • Hunt, uncover, and analyze zero day threats/malware events
  • Full packet analysis and identify malware infection vectors, traversal and behaviour
  • Investigate and decision alerts generated by IPS and correlate events via SIEM with log data, netflow data and both known and unknown IOC's.
  • Tune and write rules for SIEM and IDS/IPS for dynamic malware detection.
  • Stay current with new threat actors, malware and analyzing techniques
  • Tools used daily are SourceFire IDS/IPS, Kibanna SIEM, Solera PCAP, SiLK netflow and Wireshark
Confidential

Research Analyst

  • Use Solarwinds SIEM to review, research and decision all anomalous network traffic. Also tune SIEM as needed and create rules for monitoring purposes
  • Respond and triage alerts generated by SourceFire IDS/IPS
  • Monitor privileged account usage and make appropriate decisions
  • Monitor Lancope Stealthwatch and Solarwinds Orion to monitor and analyze network traffic
  • Monitor and mitigate email gateway by identifying and removing malicious email Postini and Symantec Brightmail
  • Part of the Incident response and triage team for cyber incidents
  • Administer and monitor Symantec Anti-virus and monitor and triage suspect traffic from infected workstations and servers
  • Audit and implement DLP policies email using Symantec DLP
  • Audit and implement DLP policies at rest using MBAM
  • Stay current with industry specific threats and technologies. Present such information to SOC teams to help better adherence to SOX and PCI DSS
  • Respond to alerts from FS-ISAC and Dell SOC, Sourcefire IDS/IPS and mitigate vulnerabilities accordingly
  • Coordinate with telecom teams and workstation support to ensure completeness of incident remediation

Confidential

Security Analyst

  • Maintained HIPS, Firewalls and Anti-Virus of individual machines. Products worked with was Norton 360, Norton anti-virus, Kaspersky and Microsoft Security Essentials to ensure defense diversity
  • Provide everyday monitoring of security incidents. Responsible for all software installations and patch management over multiple locations. In charge for all new hardware requisitioning to meet compatibility and security requirements
  • Designed and implemented both customer facing and internal wireless network using Linksys hardware. I was also in charge of the security aspects of the wireless networks by implementing proper secure communications
  • Train and educate associates of security vulnerabilities associated with unsafe downloads, browsing and social media

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Experience of auditing DLP solutions in an enterprise level to meet compliance Symantec DLP
  • Excellent understanding of IT related security concepts. Enterprise and SOHO
  • Experience with SolarWinds SIEM and Solarwinds Orion, Symantec DLP and Symantec End point protection and Lancope Stealthwatch.
  • Experience working with SourceFire IDS/IPS
  • Excellent troubleshooting ability via phone, email and chat
  • Act as team lead, and manage and train multiple employees
  • Ability to develop policy guidelines from scratch to be used at an enterprise level
  • Experience using SiLK net flow monitoring, Sourcefire IPS and Kibanna LEM.
  • Exceptional reporting skills based on scanned results, to be provided to upper management in a non technical fashion if necessary
  • Familiarity with network traffic monitoring tools such as Websense
  • Help Desk experience. Experience using Remedy and Footprints ticketing systems

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • English Expert
  • Bengali Expert
  • Spanish, Swedish Beginner

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