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Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

-Focus on internal compromise prevention and detection-Windows OS and Active Directory Security -Internal Red and Blue Teamer and knowledge of many Red Team tools for Penetration Testing-Experience in Web Security Testing and WiFi hacking-Proficient in the use of PowerShell and understanding of PowerShell-based attacksMember of Hunt Team and AT&T Global Response TeamSupport in major enterprise investigations and incident handling/response

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Network Security Event Monitoring/Detection/Analysis (Big Data)– Use strategic network monitoring systems like SQRRL and other technologies to access, interpret and investigate anomalous proxy and firewall logs and overall enterprise network activity.• Threat Analytics and Response – Identify, investigate and respond defensively to recognized network threats or attacks, system vulnerabilities and misconfigured devices located on an enterprise network. Hunt Team initiatives include event detection/response, case/ticket creation and HX agent implementation. • Network Level Expertise – Knowledge and understanding of TCP/UDP ports and services, HTTP status and error codes, packet payload interpretation, web traffic analysis and DNS services.• Global Response Team – Worked as member of the Global Response Team (GRT) and have experience working well in a collaborative environment with other security analysts. Ambitious in accepting new challenges, cooperative analysis, assuming leadership roles and learning new systems and technologies.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Roles and Responsibilities include:Evaluation of packet capture platforms based on both hardware and software solutions for advanced network security analysis features including the use of integrated open source tools such as Security Onion. • Learn about R, RCloud, basic stats, data visualization with R, Linux command-line tools• Created various types of visual plots/graphs using security data collected from performance tests on servers.• Used a combination of powerful Linux command line tools and PuTTy to organize and manipulate data files into meaningful format across the network.• Uploaded refined data files into RCloud environment and wrote basic R programs to create plot visualizations.• Learn about VMs, basic Linux commands, networking protocols, packet capture and replay, packet rewriting, PCAP files, performance analysis on Linux, IPFIX• Examine captures using tshark on the webserver • Rewrite MAC addresses of capture file on the VM –“tcprewrite”• Replay capture file at various speeds - evaluate collector performance using Linux tools such as top and awkDesigned and developed a website for Heroes on the Water – A volunteer organization that helps veterans distress through fishing and kayaking trips. Utilized MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, AngularJS, NodeJs).

Dallas, Tx, Us

Roles and responsibilities include:•Investigated several families of Point-of-Sale malware, the types of victims impacted, how the malware communicates and how it steals credit card data from infected systems.•Utilized various toolsets to facilitate investigation and research:• Internet netflow (network flow) data to identify victims.• RSA Security Analytics (formerly NetWitness) to analyze malware communications over the network.• IDA Pro to reverse engineer malware binary executables.•As part of final readout and demonstration, assembled a point-of-sale system (with credit-card swipe reader) infected with the Dexter POS malware and setup a command-and-control server which received the stolen credentials. Demonstrated how the malware steals credit card data in real-time to the audience after the main presentation.

Master'S Degree, Information Security Operations

Bachelor’S Degree, Criminal Justice And Corrections

Minor, Computer Science