Student Security Analyst
Pisces
Washington, United States
• Gained operational security analyst experience through monitoring network traffic on critical government infrastructure for Washington state municipalities.• Identified and investigated cybersecurity events using time domain and signature based analytics for digital forensics and incident response purposes.• Analyzed Suricata IDS netflow data utilizing ELK stack software for discovery, lens and dashboard creation. Created custom alerts and virus signatures from results of applied digital forensics and reverse malware engineering.• Created and managed tickets, escalated events appropriately to local governments when security events were indicated as well as maintained knowledge retention documentation.• Researched and delivered a quarterly cybersecurity enhancement report for the municipality’s IT management team to increase the security posture of their network through suggested firewall configuration and internal network traffic improvements.