Cybersecurity Analyst

PATRICK AKHIGBE

E: **********@*****.***

P: 405-***-****

A: Atlanta, GA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Cybersecurity professional with 6 years of progressive experience in the field. Demonstrated skill identifying business risks and compliance issues and designing proactive solutions. Background designing and implementing layered network security approaches.

Highly experienced information security professional with vast experience in complete security solution, security information event management, vulnerability scanning, and application/system security management. Possess an outstanding communication, great interpersonal and leadership skills.

In search of an opportunity that offers growth, challenges and responsibilities as a successful security analyst/consultant or vulnerability assessor in a well-established organization.

WORK HISTORY

Leidos - Cybersecurity Analyst

Atlanta, GA • 11/2014 - Current

Part of the monitoring and incident response team

Ensures proper log monitoring, reporting and escalation of non-compliant activity

Design training manuals to increase security awareness throughout the organization since humans are the weakest link in security.

Use Wireshark as a protocol analyzer to capture packets/network traffic in order to detect unusual levels of network traffic, unusual packet characteristics, and identify packet sources or their destinations.

Integrate applications on applications on Splunk Enterprise

Perform vulnerability assessments using Qualys and Nessus on the system to check for any weaknesses/anomalies in the services and ports, and any potential paths that might be discovered by bad actors with exploited by programs or scripts. It helps to mitigate risk and potential threats to the system.

Analyze and monitored incoming security events using IDS, IPS, SIEM tools, which helps detect anomalies and possible malicious attacks to the network/system

Support access requests, modifications and permissions to prevent privilege escalation on Splunk

Create queries, dashboards, alerts and visualizations to support customer requirements and monitoring of the Splunk Enterprise deployment, which helps non-splunk savvy employees to easily get data

Made use of risk mitigation tools like Anti-Virus, IDS/IPS, Wireshark to helps mitigate threat

Support onboarding and maintenance of a wide variety of data sources to include various OS, appliance, and application logs ensuring the right access levels are granted

Demonstrated understanding of modern Identity & Access Management concepts and best practices

Create and manage alerts (scheduled and real time) which helps to detect any possible anomalies in the system like brute force attacks, foreign ips etc using Splunk

Use Splunk Enterprise Security to review incidents

Performed data ingestion into Splunk

Using various commands on the search head of Splunk Enterprise to produce desired reports/results

Establish collaborative working relations with the Information Technology functions to ensure that solutions align with the security architecture and business strategy.

Very knowledgeable in PCI DSS, and HIPAA compliance

Implement SOC 2 compliance to maintain the CIA triad and privacy of customer data

Create dashboards and reports to make user interactivity easier

Possess vast knowledge and some hands-on experience with Encryption, VPN tunnels, IDS, IPS, PKI, DMZ and DNS

Managed relationships with third-party intrusion detection system providers

Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.

Invesco - Cybersecurity Engineer

Atlanta, GA • 06/2012 - 10/2014

Demonstrated proficiency in vast array of cyber security platforms: SIEM, IDS/IPS, DLP, WAF, Endpoint Security

Cloud infrastructure experience

Very knowledgeable in PCI DSS, and HIPAA compliance

Implement SOC 2 compliance to maintain the CIA triad and privacy of customer data

Assisted in problem identification and resolution

Assessed network/systems optimizations and vulnerabilities for executive level decisions.

Investigated intrusion incidents, and mounts incident response

Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.

Tronox LLC - Technical Specialist II

Oklahoma City, OK • 07/2010 - 05/2012

Conducted R&D on finishing the Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) pigment.

Worked on various hydrophilic TiO2 grades: CR-826, CR-828, CR-813, CR-826 slurry, and CR-813 slurry.

Performed various projects in improving the bulk density, tint strength, tint tone, durability, pigment wetting, and reducing the wash time of the treatment.

Carried out dispersions, sand-milling, treatments, prilling, micronizing on the various TiO2 pigment grades.

Conducted plant trials

IBC Bank - Sales Associate

Oklahoma City, OK • 06/2008 - 07/2010

Opening and closing personal and business accounts.

Placing holds on accounts and monitoring them for suspicious activities

Ordering and deactivating debit cards

Notary public.

SKILLS

Nessus, Qulays, NIST Framework, Splunk

Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation, Wireshark, Qualys, SIEM, EC2, Incidence Response, Cloud Security

WAF, OWASP Top 10, Data Ingestion

Virus Total, Attention to details

Excellent interpersonal skills and attention to details

Splunk Knowledge Objects, Social Engineering Skills

VDI VMware and VPN (Cisco Anyconnect)

S3, VPC, Snort, Tripwire, AWS Shield, IAM (Identity Access Management)

HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS Compliances

Effective communication

Team player, Team management,

Problem resolution and excellent communications skills

EDUCATION

University of Central Oklahoma

Edmond, OK

Bachelor of Science: Chemistry

Oklahoma City Community College

Oklahoma City, OK

Associate of Science: Pharmacy (Pre-Pharmacy)

CERTIFICATIONS

Certification in Cybersecurity and Information Security, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

CompTIA Security+ SY0-501

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

AWS Certified Big Data

Splunk Core Certified User

Splunk Core Certified Power User

Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - In Progress

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