Michael Slavens Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Offering expertise and hands on work in the fields of:- Network security (firewall deployment, configuration, management, policyreview, design, deployment, IDS / IPS, inline inspection, automation,management).- Email security (solution deployment, configuration, management, policyreview, design, spam filters, quarantine systems, sender authentication, enduser education, automation).- Vulnerability Management (system deployment, configuration, management,scanning, assessing, reporting, educating, false positive assessment, truepositive validation).- System hardening (system deployment, configuration, management,scanning, assessing, reporting, educating, policy tuning).- Framework Compliance (assessing, aligning, and auditing).

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Designed and implemented network security segmentation strategy for newlyonboarded datacenter.- Technical Lead for numerous application migrations, application onboarding andlarge-scale system upgrades.- POC assessments: developed, tested, and validated uses cases against potentialtechnologies to be purchased and onboard by organization.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Developed automated security defenses that leveraged custom playbookswithin a SOAR platform.- Strengthened cybersecurity defenses by building custom integrations betweentechnologies and enabled cross platform communications.- Cybersecurity SME on IT projects.

Calgary, Canada Area

-mentor peers on areas of responsibilities-provided expert opinions on areas of responsibilitiesResponsible for:-next generation firewalls - platform design, deployment and maintenance (Palo Alto Networks, VMWare NSX - managed 150+ firewalls)-firewall rule design and implementation (traditional policy, next generation policy, zero trust design, 'SAMS' design)-consolidation of technology onto next generation platforms (web filtering, IDS, IPS)-network security design and implementation-email security - maintain email gateway (policy and platform), introduced the adoption of SPF, DMARC, DKIM

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

-performed white-box/black-box code and application reviews (Web Application Pen Testing)-responsible for developing and implementing an enterprise vulnerability management program-responsible for maintaining system hardening standards and testing standards across enterprise systems (600+)-firewall administration (Cisco, McAfee) - (rule design and implementation)-email filtering administration (McAfee Email Gateway) - (policy design and implementation)-web filtering administration (McAfee Web Gateway) - (policy design and implementation)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Managed day to day requests for the IT Security team.-monitored the SIEM for events and threats-handled daily sec ops tasks (triaging tickets, reviewed security bulletins, scheduled and initiated security scans)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada