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Some key words describing me are:• fast learning• responsible• adaptable• effective• innovative• logical thinking• meticulous• perceptive• results oriented• self-propelledI have over 20 years of experience as a consultant. Over the years I have acquired both broad and deep knowledge on several cyber security, management and monitoring products.I have helped build and maintain good, stable automation, monitoring and security implementations at many of Sweden's largest municipalities, health care, county councils, government agencies and companies.Examples of technical assignment are installation, configuration, integration and troubleshooting.The latest assignment is to design, setup, install, configure one of northern Europe's biggest SOAR installation based on Palo Alto Networks XSOAR. Currently I'm building content, playbooks and automations in XSOAR for this customer.Side by side of the above assignment I maintain one of Europe's biggest ArcSight installations based on EPS. I build content in ArcSight ESM but also in Microsoft Sentinel which is the other SIEM I work with daily.At Tele2 I regularly took part in all stages of the business process like architect, design, pre-sale, demos, Proof of Concepts etc. I helped customers with design, installation/configuration, education, knowledge transferring, workshop, documentation, troubleshooting and so on.Over the years I have been invited to hold several speeches at HPE and now Micro Focus Universe. I have also been part in several Technical Advisor board and Customer Advisor board regarding Micro Focus NNMi and the ArcSight suite.Here is a summary of my knowledge areas.Cyber Security• Palo Alto Networks XSOAR• ArcSight Logger• ArcSight Management Center• ArcSight Smart and Flex Connector• ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)• ArcSight Platform• ArcSight Transformation Hub• ArcSight Fusion• ArcSight SOAR• Microsoft Sentinel (Azure)• Microsoft 365 Defender and other cloud security• Anomali/CIF/MISP (Threat Int)• Rapid7 insightVM / Nessus• ElasticStack (ELK)• CheckPoint• Cisco StealthWatch• Cisco ASA/PIX/FTD FW• Cisco ACS, ISEIT Management• Network Node Monitor (NNMi) and the iSPIs• Cisco PI• HP Operations• HP SIM• Op5• Check_MK• ObserviumCloud• Microsoft Azure• Amazon AWS OS• RH/CentOS Linux• Windows• Ubuntu Networking• Cisco RO/SW• Cisco IP SLA• SNMP• Netflow• IPv6Programming/scripting• Python• Perl• Bash• VBS/PowershellOthers• Technical project leader• BIND/DNS• ITIL• Jira• Confluense/XWiki• PacketShaper• VMWare

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