Don Garrison Email & Phone Number

Lexington, KY, US

East Greenbush, New York, United States

I work to improve CIS-offered services like Albert, ESS, and MDBR as well as identifying new services. The focus of the organization is on State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments, with a heavy focus on the “cyber underserved.”

East Greenbush, New York, United States

As the Principal Cyber Defense Engineer, I work with many CIS-offered services like Albert, ESS, and MDBR to aid the Engineering staff with correlating service logs to expedite investigations and increase alert fidelity and response speed. The focus of the organization is on State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments, with a heavy focus on.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• As a Security Engineer, Senior, I provide guidance to improving the city's overall security posture by using new and existing tools, detection mechanisms, and incorporating information gathered from cyber threat intel..
• Use Splunk and event log sources to perform incident investigations and root-cause analysis. Event logging, enrichment, filtering, writing and responding to alerts, tailoring alerts to emerging IoCs and threat hunting.
• Select, Deploy, and Manage: Application allow-listing; IDS; “FreeDR” (Sysmon, Defender, PowerShell, Group Policies, Attack Surface Reduction, and other native Microsoft tools)
• Cybersecurity and CIO policy authoring and review
• Use offensive and defensive tools to assess strength of defense and alerting.
• Automation scripting with PowerShell, Python, and Bash

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Transitioned to direct hire by LFUCG

Lexington, Kentucky

Information Security Engineer (Primary Assignment: Lexington Fayette Urban County Government) Transitioned to HealthTech Solutions, Inc.

Lexington, KY

Topsail Technologies, LLC is a technology consulting firm with a mission to provide high quality networking, consulting, and cyber security services to associations and small and medium businesses.

Lexington, KY

* Managed the Creative Services Department -- allowed me to work with two outstanding, creative individuals and help them to achieve our collective objectives. * As Director of Technology I was given the opportunity to design, manage, and grow our corporate network to support the company’s expansion of over 300%. At the same time, transitioning many of the.

As a Sr. Systems Engineer, I designed and deployed many solutions, such as MSSQL, Exchange, Active Directory, and Storage Area Networks, for customers at the Commonwealth of Kentucky, through contracts held by Accent Systems.

Bs: Cybersecurity And Information Assurance, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Business Management, Computer Science

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