Career Profile

Seasoned cyber security professional with over 16 years of experience with 3 years providing leadership to technical teams.

Experiences

Manager Security Automation

March 2022 - Present
Navy Federal Credit Union, Vienna, VA

Lead and manage an advanced security automation team comprised of cyber security engineers, business process analysts, business process developers and technical product managers. Responsible for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) capabilities for the Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC). Responsible for business process automation to include case management and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for the security department.

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Senior / Lead SOC Analyst

June 2018 - March 2022
Aegon (Transamerica), Cedar Rapids, IA

As a lead SOC analyst I managed and mentored junior analysts and provided leadership in security incident handling and remediation. I evaluated and recommended new and emerging security best practices, products and technology. Implemented a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform and wrote custom coded, python based playbooks to reduce analyst fatigue and to improve the incident response workflow. Created multiple new alerting rules to help protect the organization from malicious threat actors. Acted as the point of contact for audit inquiries. Primary escalation point for all incident response activities.

  • Built Aegon’s Cyber Threat Intelligence program from the ground up.
  • Implemented a solution to analyze phishing emails and automate the responses back to the initial submitter.

Entry / Intermediate / Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer

May 2008 - June 2018
Aegon (Transamerica), Cedar Rapids, IA

Designed and maintained antivirus and EDR infrastructure for the enterprise. Tuned policy and settings to stay in-line with best practice recommendations. Performed multiple ‘proof of value’ product evaluations based on defined requirements to find the best solution for the enterprise. Participated in an on-call rotation to monitor alerts. Participated in alert tuning activities.

  • Conducted an intensive bake-off and implemented Aegon’s first Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform.
  • Continued to manage and maintain technology solutions after transitioning to a new role in the SOC.

Certifications

Leadership Essentials

2024

GIAC Security Leadership (GSLC)

2020
GIAC

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

2011
ISC(2) (570578)

OSS Contributions

My open source software contributions written in python.

URLDecode - A python script to quickly decode Proofpoint encoded URLs
ipinfo - A python application to interact with the ipinfo.io api.

Publications

  • Streamlining Counter-fraud Tactical Intelligence Delivery
  • Fridley A.R, Tunis, J.R.
    FS-ISAC Fall Summit, Atlanta, GA, USA, (2024)
  • Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career
  • T. Wall, J. Roderick (2021)
    SOC Automation (Chapter 7)

    Skills & Proficiency

    Security Management

    Incident Response

    Security Orchestration Automation and Response

    Cyber Threat Intelligence

    Digital Forensics

    Incident Management

    Python