Benjamin Weaver Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Responsible for:Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organization's data, systems, and networks. Troubleshooting security and network problems.Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.Ensuring that the organization's data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate security controls.Participating in the change management process.Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.Daily administrative tasks, reporting, and communication with the relevant departments in the organization.Provide expertise in the triage, identification, containment, and resolution of potential security incidentsExecute the incident response plan, ensuring cross-functional teams operate functionally and efficiently through incident response scenariosDraft, maintain, and communicate incident reports for an executive audienceDevelop dashboards to allow quicker and more efficient insight into security eventsImprove Cybersecurity monitoring by identifying and onboarding new log sources, creating new detection rules, and automating response workflowsIdentify residual risk through security monitoring and instigate security-focused projects to remediate root cause issuesProactively hunting threats in our environment, identifying new risk areas, and developing methods for us to proactively address these threatsManage multiple cybersecurity technologies to ensure ongoing maintenance and effective capabilitiesWork with broader Cybersecurity and IT team members to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and policies related to cybersecurity

Huntsville, Alabama Area

- Monitor and manage the NASA-Russia Checkpoint firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls, Proxy server, Mobile Device Management, and Data at Rest.- Designs and conducts regular audits on NASA-Russia computer systems and networks to determine if they are operating securely and that data is protected from both internal and external threats.- Maintain and update NASA-Russia security policies on a regular basis.- Assess NASA-Russia systems to determine the system security status and ensures compliance to Federally mandated security policies, procedures and standards (HSPD12, FISMA, NIST).

Sheffield, Al

July 2014 - June 2015, Active Duty under Operations Enduring Freedom, and Resolute Support.I Served as a Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) Support Officer, providing sustainment and base life contract support to the deployed warfighter. I embedded with supported units to analyze gaps in organic sustainment capabilities and assisted the supported unit with bring LOGCAP program capabilities to meet those requirements. I liaised with Senior Regional Commanders, Garrisons, contractors, and Administrative Contracting Officers (ACO) to ensure services are provided on time, efficiently, and to standard. I advised the requiring activity on cessation of services and Forward Operating Base (FOB) closure to meet drawn down objectives.

Greater Atlanta Area

- Monitor and maintain IDS/IPS customer devices for possible intrusions and infected systems.- Perform Policy Change Requests for clients on various devices to include: Cisco Pix, Cisco IDS/IPS, Checkpoint Firewall, Netscreen Firewall, Proventia IDS/IPS.- Alert and investigate hardware problems directly with clients.- Ensure information security policies are applied in new and existing applications.