Manuel Zhindon Email & Phone Number

- Currently leading assessors, and performing an audit of the Privacy Program for the largest social media site maintaining close working relationships with key stakeholders in formulating complex solutions to further their maturity in Data Lifecycle Management, Transparency, Consent, and Security.- Created innovative capability to perform dark web data collection using a scalable self-sufficient botnet capable of bypassing common bot prevention mechanisms. So far collected over 5TB in various incident response cases, achieving results in cases were competitor could not download any data from these publications.- Developed the Digital Footprinting service, capable of providing an outside-in view of an organisation's exposure from the perspective on an attacker, with increased functionality, improved responsiveness, and standardised reporting. This is now standard across all due diligence and maturity assessments.- Perfomed, and led mutliple web application penetration tests, finding critical issues that resulted in complete loss of protection, including stored XSS CSRF achieving full Account Takeover, and access to sensitive data through Broken Access Controls and Insecure Direct Object References.- Audited network traffic, performed source code review and conducted penetration tests of IP Cameras, Network Video Recorders, thick client application, and web servers for one of the largest security camera vendors due to a mandated court judgement requiring an expert report for their defense.

- Helped clients understand their cybersecurity maturity and designed custom tailored roadmaps to address the gaps identified during these assessments.- Conducted complex investigations that included data breaches caused by malicious threat actors, and assisted in understanding incidents’ impacts and facilitating the development of an increasingly comprehensive risk management strategy. - Leveraged expertise in DevOps to ensure that products and systems are sufficient to meet pipeline demands for forensic, incident response and technical analysis across EMEIA cyber projects.

Manchester, United Kingdom

- Joined as part of their first international SOC. Enhanced communication, workflowand relationship with U.S. teams, resulting in improvements to standard procedures.- Interpreted and performed incident response using data provided by SIEM/IDS/IPSto form hypotheses regarding potential indicators of compromise.- Administered and modified policies implemented in firewalls, endpoints and data lossprevention to meet client’s dynamic business needs.- Revised existing procedures through operational changes to improve customer support,response times, incident analysis and maturity.- Developed custom scripts to automate data processing for open source intelligenceinvestigations and monthly reports improving standard operations efficiency.- Researched security feeds to review emerging threats and solutions to help formulateclient advisories increasing client awareness and decreasing risk exposure.

Guayaquil, Ecuador

- Provided the main offices with IT support installing OS, new software and replacing hardware.- Researched and collaborated with the quality assurance department in the execution of tests needed in order to qualify for exportation or distribution certificates.- Controlled the process of warehousing fruits and vegetables for production.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, First Class Honours

Thesis Title: Becoming a Target Link: https://bit.ly/BecomingATargetThesis - Studied machine learning optimisation, operating systems.

International Baccauleaurate Diploma, 36

- Best IB diploma in the class - Maximum marks achieved in Computer Science