Alex Abazie

Elizabeth, NJ *****

Email: ad2qg5@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn.com/in/alex-abazie-3252a227a

Phone: 908-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Seeking an Information Security/Cyber Security Analyst/Cyber Security Engineer or Security Operations Center Analyst position

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

IT Cybersecurity Analyst with over 4 years of experience performing research, analysis, and troubleshooting to identify, resolve, and remediate security issues and findings within the enterprise

Cybersecurity, Incident Management, and IT compliance support across the Enterprise Infrastructure

Security policy interpretation and implementation requirements ensure confidentiality, integrity, information, systems, and network availability.

Highly motivated, organized, and results and detail-oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills

Possessed a unique combination of technical abilities, communication skills, and the ability to multitask that allow me to collaborate with end-users or business TECHNICAL SKILLS

Security Technologies: Nessus Security Center, Nmap, Wireshark, IDS/IPS; Log Management, Anti-Virus Tools; (Norton, Symantec).

Application: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access); Wireshark, NMAP, Nessus, ArcSight, SharePoint, Google Docs

Operating Systems: Unix-Based Systems (Linux); Windows.

Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint)

Ticket Systems: ServiceNow, Remedy

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Alpha Technology Group, MD 10/2021 – Present

Information/Cybersecurity Analyst

Responsibilities:

Performs vulnerability scanning with Nessus to detect potential risks on single or multiple assets across the enterprise network

Develops, coordinates, implements, and maintains standards and procedures to protect information systems and data security and integrity

Leverage Nessus to identify systems compliance risk levels, identify non-compliance issues and security vulnerabilities, and manage remediation activities.

Daily review of logs and alerts from IDS/IPS devices, DLP system, and Splunk.

Provides support and security overview on cloud-based solutions implementation, including private, community, hybrid, and public cloud deployment models.

Manages the remediations of security issues and findings across the enterprise

Creates, evaluates, and interprets internal and external information security policies and standards and participates in decision-making.

Supports the development and delivery of Information security education and awareness Coordinates with vendors and third parties to manage information security risks

Observe and analyze traffic to learn valuable lessons from known malicious actors and determine countermeasures against such threats

Provides daily status updates on existing cybersecurity incidents to follow up with clients/customers to ensure satisfactory resolution.

Develops risk assessment reports, identifying threats and vulnerabilities in systems.

Evaluate the likelihood that vulnerabilities would be exploited and assess the impact of this threat and vulnerabilities.

Conducts security control Assessments to assess the adequacy of implemented management, operational, privacy, and technical security controls.

Performs system risk management following the NIST risk management framework Manages enterprise system security plan, Risk assessment, and Privacy policies development Perform incident response to investigate and resolve computer security incidents.

Develops follow-up action plans to resolve reportable issues and communicate with other Analysts to address security threats and incidents.

Prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false positive alerts

Assists with developing processes and procedures to improve incident response times, analysis of the incident, and overall, SOC functions.

Provides Incident Response (IR) support when analysis confirms an actionable incident.

Manages information security risk assessment and research and recommends remediation plans and strategies.

Provides strategic consulting on security risk assessment, analysis, and compliance and recommends remediation plans and strategies

OBZ Web systems Consulting & Security LOS (NIG). 04/2019 - 09/2021 Cyber Information Analyst.

Responsibilities

Investigates and responds to network activities relating to unauthorized modification, destruction, and disclosure affecting business operations.

Conduct Network Security Monitoring on services including firewall, Web Application Firewall, Data Loss Prevention, and IDS/IPS.

Partnered with business departments to identify gaps in policies, procedures, and processes Evaluated operational processes and suggested improvement

Identified and analyzed business violations of security policy and standards.

Analyzed information security systems and applications and recommended and developed security measures to protect information against unauthorized modification or loss.

Prepared risk analysis documentation, reports, and recommendations

Coordinated with stakeholders and system owners to ensure compliance with security processes and controls

Managed infrastructure hardening Security Administration & Installation on multiple systems

Applied required security patches within NIST and enterprise guidelines

Conducted follow-up meetings to assist information system owners in remediating outstanding security findings

Developed risk assessment reports by identifying threats and vulnerabilities applicable to the system.

Assessed risk and validated vulnerabilities from open-source

Provided detailed reports on security findings and worked with development teams to remediate.

Managed remediation with required changes on the individual applications to meet the regulations. EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND :

Master of Science: In International Relationship Ahmadu Bello University

Bachelor of Science: In Public and Government Administration Abia State University

MEMBERSHIP & CERTIFICATIONS

CompTIA Security+ March 2023

Cyber Security-CISSP ( Candidate). December 2023 REFEREE

Upon request

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