Aidan Ethier Email & Phone Number

I practiced with Penn State's main Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team with a special focus on incident response and inject report writing as well as securing critical services.

Practiced with the main CPTC team to learn red teaming techniques with special focus on Active Directory and Operational Technology attacks, as well as report writing.

• Practiced threat intelligence by researching an APT known to attack healthcare businesses and created an attacker simulation based on that group’s known attacks.• Identified areas of improvement in the current security infrastructure by running the attacker simulation and finding opportunities for new detections.• Utilized detection engineering by writing and implementing 3 new detections in the EDR and SIEM software to reduce the effectiveness of the attack.• Developed and led a… Show more • Practiced threat intelligence by researching an APT known to attack healthcare businesses and created an attacker simulation based on that group’s known attacks.• Identified areas of improvement in the current security infrastructure by running the attacker simulation and finding opportunities for new detections.• Utilized detection engineering by writing and implementing 3 new detections in the EDR and SIEM software to reduce the effectiveness of the attack.• Developed and led a Tabletop activity for the information security team based on the chosen APT.• Wrote a threat intelligence report and presented these findings to information security executives. Show less

• Created over 20 phishing simulations per customer request to train over 160,000 GE employees on how to identify and report phishing attacks.• Analyzed the results of phishing simulations and reported them to customers with recommendations for decreasing the users’ susceptibility to attack.• Created an algorithm for evaluating the difficulty of a phishing email, and used that algorithm combined with data analysis to identify areas of improvement in the phishing program.• Presented… Show more • Created over 20 phishing simulations per customer request to train over 160,000 GE employees on how to identify and report phishing attacks.• Analyzed the results of phishing simulations and reported them to customers with recommendations for decreasing the users’ susceptibility to attack.• Created an algorithm for evaluating the difficulty of a phishing email, and used that algorithm combined with data analysis to identify areas of improvement in the phishing program.• Presented findings from the data analysis to a GE executive.• Created a scavenger hunt from GE Aerospace to use at TechOlympics 2024 to entice future interns to apply to GE Aerospace. Show less

Cybersecurity Analytics And Operations

Activities and Societies: Penn State Club Cross Country, Penn State Competitive Cyber Security Organization

Cybersecurity And Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Varsity Cross Country, Varsity Track, Engineering Club, P&G Aspire Mentorship Program

Dual Enrollment / Ccp, Cybersecurity

Foundation Degree, Computers, Technology & Security