Akongnwi Kizito Ngwa

IT Security Specialist

Certified and experienced cyber security analyst with experience in Risk Management, Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Protection, Incident Response. Experience in coordinating the use of industry-recognized information security frameworks and procedures to secure the organization's information systems. Seeking an Information Security position within a dynamic team in maintaining the organizational security goals

Contact

Address

Woodbury, MN 43081

Phone

612-***-****

E-mail

adz78q@r.postjobfree.com

Skills

Incident Response: Splunk, AWS CloudWatch

Qualys Cloud, Tenable Nessus, Nmap, SAST/DAST

Incident and Ticketing: ServiceNow Ticket and Asset Management

Operating Systems: CentOS, Windows Server 2016/2019.

Endpoint Protection: Windows Defender ATP, Carbon Black

Risk Management: PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST CSF, Access Review, Annual Disaster Recovery

Cloud: AWS WAF, Guard Duty, Inspector, Security Hub, Cisco Umbrella

Project Management: Agile/Scrum methodologies, Change management process

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, DNS, LDAP, FTP, DHCP, SCP

IAM: AWS IAM, Active Directory, RBAC

Work History

2019-03 - Current

IT Security Analyst II

REM Ramsey Inc

Create Splunk alerts, dashboards, and reports for multiple application

Setup and Coordinate Security Incident bridges with multiple application owners and vendors

Create, and tune Defender ATP malware and exclusion policies to improve endpoint protection

Managed relationships with third-party intrusion detection system providers

Review source code security scanning and coordinate vulnerability remediation prior to code promotion to production systems

Review and implement IP and Geo blocks using AWS WAFs during attacks

Coordinate Qualys agent installation and upgrades across the organization

Assist with detecting and identifying servers running unsupported windows and Linux operating systems and coordinate OS upgrades with multiple internal and external customers

Scan, prioritize and coordinate vulnerability remediation across multiple departments and business units

Investigate Malware, Brute force, Phishing, DDOS security incidents

Responsible for coordinating enterprise vulnerability management lifecycle including scanning, generating reports, prioritizing, remediation, and verification

Collaborated with third-party payment card industry (PCI) compliance partners Create documentations and runbooks to facilitate security incident investigation and response

Creating Security incident dashboards, alerts and reports for multiple applications

2018-02 - 2019-03

Cyber Security Risk Specialist

REM Ramsey Inc

Built relationships and fostered effective communication with legal personnel to conduct practical investigations

Create and coordinate quarterly phishing campaigns as well security awareness training

Monitored confidential company data and mitigated hacking through network systems updates

Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security

Work independently to collect, consolidate and analyze evidence of clients PCI DSS compliance and meet the internal quality assurance requirements

Produce final reports on compliance to detail the controls observed during security assessments in accordance with various security standards and regulations

2016-03 - 2018-02

IT Support Specialist

REM Ramsey Inc

Offered new customers training to reduce frustration and improve customer satisfaction

Assisting in new clients' onboarding and environment setup

Performing network and applications troubleshooting for clients

Created help desk tickets, troubleshot, and resolved desktop issues

Developed and tested new product offerings prior to release to assist development team in bug identification

Implemented MFA to secure user's account

Resolved diverse range of technical issues across multiple systems and applications for customers and end-users across various time zones

Education

Bachelor of Science: Political Science

University Of Buea - Cameroon

CompTIA Security+

Certifications

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