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Peoria, Illinois Area

Acted as a Peer Mentor and point of contact for other analystsReviewed incident casework and provide feedback on analysts’ workSandboxed and analyzed suspicious attachments within emails to determine if the contents were phishing, malware, or non-malicious. Remediated the threat accordinglyLead team and shift transition meetingsInvestigated, triaged, and remediated security events within the environmentIdentified and removed multiple publicly posted PII from the public webManaged the CSIRT inbox and CSIRT assigned ticketsTrained 20+ new employees within the Security Operations CenterIdentified and investigated exposed RDP ports resulting from improperly configured firewalls, while also analyzing which exposed assets experienced brute force attacksTested and provided feedback on multiple Endpoint Detection and Response solutionsCreated an assortment of tuning tasks to better generate less false positivesIdentified query-breaking issues within threat hunting queries and provided solutionsInvestigated fully fledged simulated attacks and help identify solutions for preventionIdentified and remediated malware infected removable drives interacting with assets

Lake Forest, Ilinois

Cybersecurity Intern at Rank Group Limited.The business units include Reynolds Consumer Products, Pactiv Food Services, Graham Packing Company Inc, Evergreen Packing LLC, and Closure Systems International.• Wrote and compiled incident reports, which included identifying risks and actions• Created heat maps as a visual to show cybersecurity risks across all Business Units• Researched and drafted a Data Classification and Handling Policy• Researched and authored a whitepaper on the importance of Vulnerability assessments to an overall cybersecurity program• Monitored, analyzed, and reported on data from multiple phishing tests• Created targeted training for phishing test failures• Created a process for creating phishing campaigns, reporting, and follow up training• Researched processes for Vendor Risk Assessments from a Cybersecurity perspective• Tested out scenarios within a Risk Assessment model and revised appropriately• Drafted an End User Computing policy clause to be added to a Cybersecurity Policy

Worked for Tradewind Energies to bring renewable energy in the form of Wind Turbines to Dewitt County. Participated in outreach campaigns to educate the population of the benefits of Wind Turbines.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Related detailed public policy information in a fast paced environment via oral communication.Assisted Field Office manager with tasks such as intern and volunteer recruitment.

Schaumburg, Il

Completed Vendor Risk Assessments.Created processes for applying Web Application Firewalls to sites.Lead weekly team meetings.Handled patch and scan exceptions.Analysed Cloud data.Worked with regulatory compliance, internal policies and procedures.