Soc Analyst Cyber Security

Nana Kofi Owusu-Ansah

*.*.*****-*****@*****.******.*** 443-***-****

Education

Mount Saint Mary’s University Expected Graduation May 2024

Cybersecurity Bachelor of Science

GPA: 3.0

Center of Applied Technology North 2017-2019

Cisco Level 1 & 2

Old Mill Senior High School Graduated May 2020 High School Diploma

GPA: 3.5

Experience

Mount Saint Mary’s University

SOC Analyst January 2022-Present

Monitor live security events, identify possible breaches, review network logs, triage e-mails that have been tagged as phishing, disseminate information as it becomes available to coordinate relevant teams.

Daily Threat Hunting

oUsing logs from various sources (Azure AD sign-ins, email phishing activity, canvas sign-ins) from Elasticsearch Kibana interface to proactively watch the environments to detect and block any suspicious activity or discrepancies.

Investigate potential compromised accounts.

oA detailed search and analysis are conducted on any suspected compromised account to determine validity and if the account is compromised, it’s escalated to networking team for remediation.

Build out production rules to alert on anomalies, spikes, or other patterns of interest from data in Elasticsearch.

oSearch Microsoft teams group distro for alerts requiring investigation, check if alerts are working as designed, rule out false positives and validate real alerts for possible investigation.

Deploy Elasticsearch Honeypot in test environment to examine Attacker TTP(tactics, techniques, procedures)

o This step is undertaken to determine suspicious IP addresses that are added to a blocklist and escalated to network team to update to production environment.

Research current threats and vulnerabilities

oResearch to determine new threats and vulnerabilities based on published articles from security researchers, top technology companies to determine impact on environments and explore proposed technologies and remediations for preventing attacks.

Student August 2020- Present

As a student, conducted the following hands-on/training and taken courses focused on Computer Science and Cyber Security. In these classes, learned basic bash shell scripting, created virtual pen-testing sandbox, explored operating systems and their administration, designed, and explored networks, learned to evaluate, and apply network security tactics, performed a vulnerability assessment, executed a network risk assessment, and explored digital forensics in the context of incident response.

Hands-On Training

Coursework

Installed Eclipse IDE and configured java development environment.

Wrote a java program to expand current methods available for arrays.

Wrote a java program to calculate customer change.

Designed control flow diagrams required for coding projects.

Set-up python environment using IDLE for development.

Wrote a python program to determine the daily average health of different plant types using nested loops.

Wrote a python program to evaluate k-fold of a given numerical digit.

Introduction to Computer Science I

Introduction to Computer Science II

Computer Architecture

Network Systems and Design

Operating Systems

Networking Administration

UNIX and Windows Operating Systems

Systems Operations Management

Data Structures and Algorithms

Network Security (Ongoing)

Cyber Forensics (Ongoing)

Accounting Principles (Ongoing)

CAT North

Student August 2017- June 2019

Cisco classes Level 1 & 2, applied skills to connect networking equipment such as switches and routers with appropriate cabling.

Gathered all requirements, installed, and configured network configuration card (NIC) by using applicable standards in windows 7/10 environment.

Investigated/reviewed existing environment by applying command sets and packet tracer to understand network issues in building troubleshooting skills.

Collected all requirements and built Ethernet cables from basic wires and RJ45 jack, tested to ensure compliance.

Honors

Dean’s Scholarship, Mount St Mary’s University

Principals Honor Roll, Old Mill Senior High School

Perfect Attendance, Old Mill Senior High School

Activities

Econ Club August 2022- Present

Mount Weightlifting Club August 2020- Present

Award: Won second place pound for pound deadlift

Severn Elementary Media Center Volunteer May 2019-March 2020

Volunteered for Media center. assisting students to find books, check out books, return used books back to shelves, organization, and storage.

Technical Skills

Install & Configure NIC, Troubleshoot NIC, Configure Network Settings.

Identify & install software, Identify & install computer hardware, troubleshoot hardware issues,

Construct cross-over cable & roll-over cables, identify & label cable installations, Punch Down RJ45 Jack,

Conduct basic router configurations,

Debug network & hardware issues

Wireshark

Beginner python & java

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Linux(Intermediate, Kali)

Windows

ElastAlert & Kibana

Bash(Beginner)

Penetration Testing(Beginner)

Exposure to C programming

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