As a Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager i lead and mentor our SOC team. In this role, i was responsible for ensuring 24/7/365 monitoring of our l Organization, coordinating and syncing with counterparts, and providing technical guidance and mentorship to SOC analysts. Being SOC Manager i played a critical role in safeguarding our organization's assets and data, making this position vital to our security operations.My Key Responsibilities was Lead and mentor the SOC team, providing guidance, training, and support to enhance their skills and knowledge. Collaborate with security teams to ensure standardized round-the-clock monitoring and incident response, maintaining a 24/7/365 operation.Provide technical expertise and advice to SOC analysts in the detection, analysis, and mitigation of security incidents.Develop and maintain SOC policies, procedures, and playbooks, ensuring they are up to date with the latest threats and best practices.Monitor security alerts and events, investigating and responding to security incidents in a timely and effective manner.Oversee the selection, implementation, and management of security tools and technologies to enhance SOC capabilities.Regularly assess and improve the SOC's effectiveness and efficiency, optimizing workflows and processes.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security incidents are properly managed and remediated.Maintain and report on key SOC performance metrics, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals.Provide briefings and updates to Sr. Leadership of both a technical and non-technical matters

• Monitors work queues for alerts of potential network threats, intrusions, and/or compromises. Assess validity and scope to determine if the alert is actionable and determine remediation steps required.• Blue Team, security operations center, monitoring and alert triage threat molding using MITRE ATT&CK frame work threat hunting conducting analysis of cybersecurity threats.• Experience in cybersecurity event monitoring/analysis in a Security Operations Center environment.• Responsibilities will include the day-to-day (24×7) operations to include the application of analytic and technical skills to investigate intrusions, identify malicious activity and potential insider threats, and perform incident response.• work with other SOC and threat management staff with development and enhancement of existing detection and response capabilities including creation of SIEM content, IDS rules, SOP documentation, and implementation of incident response methodologies.• Perform operational ‘eyes on glass’ real-time monitoring and analysis of security events from multiple sources including but not limited to events from SIEM monitoring tools, network and host-based intrusion detection systems, firewall logs, system logs (Unix & Windows). • Responsible for responding to security incidents (malware infections, unauthorized access, malicious emails, DDoS attacks) and elevating to Threat Management team as needed. • Analyze security event logs and alerts to determine validity, priority and impact against both security threat best practices and corporation policies. • Evaluate the type, nature and severity of security events with a range of security event analysis tools. • Conduct active and passive analysis of network traffic, operating systems, and host activity across all technologies and platforms, through security tools and sandbox environments.

Core responsibility is to provide high-value technical and business expertise to our clients. The day-to-day activity of our technical team spans all dimensions of information security My offerings include network penetration testing , network auditing , vulnerability assessment , network architecture, design, network forensic analysis , consulting, planning, managing NOC tasks , monitoring logs , remediation and support.My technical knowledge base is cultivated through experience and training's.Key Responsibilities: Perform network penetration testing vulnerability assessment , network auditing, network forensic analysis , incident handling and propose solution to mitigate risk.

• Collaborate to design, build, and support all networks required for organization, Security Management Systems, Building Management Systems, and other needs as defined by the business, including creation/updating of all supporting documentation• Create, implement, and support standard processes and procedures to support Service Level Agreements to both business partners and customers for network uptime, reliability, service, and performance• Assist in the specification, ordering, purchasing, asset-tracking, and inventory of network-related equipment/supplies/software• Maintain the network infrastructure, highlighting and recording issues identified, creating action plans to resolve• Challenge, report and escalate as necessary to resolve any issues affecting the availability, security or integrity of the network infrastructure• Work extremely closely with Service Delivery to ensure we deliver newly built security devices on time• Actively research and investigate new tools/technologies to improve the efficiency of the team• Functions of this position are to be performed in a company-designated office or field location• firewalls, polices, VPN’s, configuration, implementation of advanced inspection and filtering techniques• worked on projects, managing multiple simultaneously and delivering according to deadlines• strong desire to learn new technologies while continuing to progress their career• In-depth knowledge and configuration of CISCO next generation firewalls (NGFW) and in-depth knowledge and experience of remote access VPN, IPSEC, Cisco ISE & RSA• Design, implement and provide solution to IT Infrastructure Network, Consulting, Assessment, upgrade and Troubleshoot VPN, Firewalls, other security devices, LAN, Wireless and WAN Expertise in implementing and troubleshooting various Palo Alto and Cisco Firewalls

My core area of teaching was network and information security