Vu Coughlin Email & Phone Number

Draper, UT, US

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Manage and maintain Mandiant Security Validation (Verodin) to perform control testing andeffectiveness measure against MUFG infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain the global security monitoring program for MUFG and its entities for over 25+countries.
• Set up automation processes using a combination of Splunk SOAR (Phantom) and REST APIs withvarious scripting languages to save the company money and resources.
• Innovate solutions to address Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and The Federal Reserve(FRB) concerns and recommendations.
• Understand and apply the existing policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines to prevent theunauthorized use, release, modification, or destruction of data.
• Participate in and observe attack in penetration testing exercises with the MUFG Penetration TestingTeam to identify security monitoring coverage.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Splunk Enterprise Security Admin - Develop security use cases to align the GSOC monitoring programwith MITRE framework.
• Splunk Phantom - Security Orchestration Automation Responses (SOAR) Platform Subject MatterExpert (SME).
• Automate alert analysis processes, correlate security events, and integrate the framework with existingsecurity infrastructure to optimize detection and remediation efficiency via Phantom-Splunk SecurityOrchestration.
• Perform security testing to identify security gaps within the infrastructure and utilize Splunk logs tocreate and maintain alerts.
• Develop Python programs that leverage REST API to automate the consistency checking and rule testingprocesses periodically.
• Recommend tuning of IDS, proxy policy, in-line malware tools based on threat feeds, trust, andreputation data, incidents, or vulnerabilities and exploit of downstream systems.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Develop and maintain Security Automation Orchestration Response program to save MUFG resourcesand money via automation response.
• Automate alert analysis processes, correlate security events, and integrate the framework with existingsecurity tools to optimize detection and remediation efficiency via Phantom-Splunk SecurityOrchestration Automation.
• Communicate clearly, effectively and professionally to a wide range of other support groups to help tuneand enable effective alert logic.
• Identify potential problems and develop potential corrective actions.
• Assist with investigations by consolidating logs across multiple internal/external environments andperforming correlation analysis.

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

• Review internal logs and alerts to determine detect potential cybersecurity events and triage advancedvector attacks such as botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
• Serve as an integral part of the Bank’s Incident Response team, helping to manage the incident escalationprocess and providing assistance with the investigation.
• Develop common tools and templates and workflow to standardized event and incident reporting.

Tempe, Arizona, US

• Publication: EDSGuard: Enforcing Network Security Requirements for Energy Delivery Systems. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids.
• Next-generation Firewall: Research, design, and implement next-generation firewall application in software-defined networks (SDN).
• SDN in Energy Delivery System(EDS): Modernize energy delivery system (EDS) cybersecurity infrastructure leveraging SDN next-generation firewall application.
• Poster Session: Present EDSGuard Poster at Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) to showcase the capabilities of EDSGuard to other research organizations and industry.
• Capture The Flag (CTF): Apply academic knowledge such as binary analysis, binary exploitation, and reverse engineering to 20+ ethical real-world hacking competitions.
• Angr CTF: Angr is an OpenSource binary analysis framework. Apply Angr capabilities in 15+ CTF challenges to familiarize with the framework.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science (Cybersecurity)

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science