James Beal Email & Phone Number

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

West Des Moines, IA, US

Threat Intelligence Practice Lead - Create, grow and evolve the cyber threat intelligence program.Incident Response Lead - Grow and evolve IR capabilities by standardizing and maturing the process of detection and response, running tabletop scenarios across the organization and performing the duties of Security Incident Manager.Endpoint Detection Engineer.

Des Moines, IA, US

Washington, DC, US

In charge of developing and maturing the Cyber Threat Intelligence Practice to provide vital threat intelligence and threat data to all of our customers. The CTI practice also works with internal teams to track down threats to our customer's environments and to provide mitigations from on-going cyber attacks. The program is based on an all-source method.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

Threat Intel Lead:Gather all relevant threat intel from a large list of sources including FS-ISAC and internal company resources.Continuously triage data on vulnerabilities, threat groups and malware/ransomware to determine need for escalated response including patching and verifying the remediation process.Maintain on-going list of systems and software to.

• Hired to create the Security Operations Center and bring together monitoring ofcorporate network and store environments.
• Assumed all daily monitoring tasks over our security tools, as well as incident handling/ incident response for all security events
• Implemented several sec. engineering POC’s that lead to production usage
• Created threat intelligence/threat monitoring tasks from external T.I. sources and internal vulnerability management
• Bi-weekly threat report shared with security team, as well as I.T. Directors sourced from opensource/free threat intel and several sharing groups such as RCISC
• Developed threat hunting across network, web & emailTools and Resources:

• Systems Administrator for the IBM Spectrum Protect(Tivoli Storage Manager) application and infrastructure, including TSM for Enterprise Edition, TSM for Virtual Edition and client side software. Backup storage is.
• AIX system admin and configuration as necessary for app support/maintenance/upgrades
• Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 admin in support of entire company server infrastructure related to our app support, troubleshooting, end client functions, configuration of system services and software installations
• Support/writing/editing of Perl scripts used for administration, automation and feature enhancements
• Support of team intranet page including writing/editing/maintenance of HTML code and Perl scripts
• Recent project work:1. Installation/configuration/maintenance of TSM Operations Center software on a standalone Linux server, which is used to provide a GUI web application tied to our backend infrastructure for.

• Interdepartmental project with the Workspace Services Infrastructure team, specifically supporting the Client/Desktop team.Administration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, responsible for over 1600 virtual machines.
• Build/configure/deploy virtual machines and templates. Completed migration of Windows XP and Windows 7 physical to virtual machines.
• Utilize Citrix Desktop Studio and VMware vSphere Client software to perform administration duties.
• VM client builds per customer requests in our workflow change management tools, including deploying new virtual machines from existing templates and cloning existing virtual machines.
• Create/manage resource pools and add all virtual machines into those pools.
• Installation/configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.

• Provide 1st and 2nd level resolution to log diagnoses and resolve intermediate to advanced computer related issues, while ensuring timely resolution/response to minimize the impact on customers daily activities..
• Work in the Command Center support role as liaison between Corporate Help Desk department and all Infrastructure teams. Facilitate communication between all areas involved in high severity issues and insure information.
• Assisted end users with installing software and hardware, customizing software and solving technical problems, not limited to but including networking, hubs, routers, wireless setup, application troubleshooting, remote.
• Develop and assist with training on new and current troubleshooting documentation, while also assisting with development and training of team members and business partners on current and new technologies.

• Administrator of user management for all systems for our Information Systems and Global Services business unit, including setting up and removing system access for employees, maintaining application security and.
• Documents all changes to system security for auditing purposes.
• Maintains Active Directory and Mainframe accounts, group and folder access for all users and service accounts, as well as access to any secondary accounts necessary for users to perform their job duties.