Brad Dial Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida Area

As a Senior Information Security Analyst of the Security Incident Response Team, I am responsible for identifying areas of weakness and investigating current incidents. While responsible for investigating incidents myself, I also direct and give instruction to non-senior SIRT members.As a member of the SIRT committee, I relayed information regarding high priority incidents to upper management so decision affecting the University's security posture could be made. I have improving process and created new workflows to increase the teams responsiveness to incidents. creating new workflow to increase the teams responsiveness to incidents.ncident response is an organized approach to addressing and managing the aftermath of a security breach or attack (also known as an incident). The goal is to handle the situation in a way that limits damage and reduces recovery time and costs. An incident response plan includes a policy that defines, in specific terms, what constitutes an incident and provides a step-by-step process that should be followed when an incident occurs.

Orlando, Florida Area

My primary responsibilities included performing vulnerability assessments, forensic examinations, and completing e-discovery requests.Vulnerability assessments were performed for over 1000 systems each month using a combination of Nessus, SecurityCenter, and Acunetix. The results of these assessments were relayed to IT managers across 50 departments and when needed, guidance was provided on how to go about mitigating these vulnerabilities.As the sole forensic examiner for the Information Security Office, I was responsible for investigating suspected criminal activities, employees accused of falsifying documents, as well as inappropriate behavior. These actions were discovered with the use of The Forensic Toolkit, FTK Imager, Macquisition, Blacklight, and Helix.

Master'S Degree, Digital Forensics

Graduate Certificate, Digital Forensics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology