Security Analyst Cyber

JULIE MERAL

Washington DC

443-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliemeral/ Information Security Analyst, Security+

An engineer-minded security analyst with a passion to improve cyber security for cloud and on-prem solutions for organizations. Trained in incident response and experienced in IT infrastructure support and patching security tools and services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certifications: CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, Splunk Core Certified User. Tools: Splunk, CrowdStrike, IBM Resilient, Nessus, Nexpose, IBM QRadar, ProofPoint, SentinelOne, Nmap, Wireshark, Jira, Office 365, Google Docs.

Frameworks: MITRE, OWASP 10.

Platforms: Windows, VirtualBox, VMWare, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cyber Security Analyst / IT Support, Capgemini Government Solutions (McLean, VA) Feb 2021 - Present

- Promoted to be a cyber security analyst from IT support after completing intensive hands-on cybersecurity training.

- Applied weekly endpoint security patches to organization servers using remote connection tools.

- Updated signatures of on-prem security tools such as Defender and Splunk.

- Assigned the user roles in Identity and Access Management of Office 365 according to need to know principle.

- Configured DHCP, DNS, and TCP/IP settings of network devices to enroll them in the corporate domain.

- Managed user account, device, and domain onboarding and offboarding in Active Directory.

- Installed, Repaired, Maintained, and Upgraded Windows Desktops and Windows Notebook & Computers.

- Performed hardware and software upgrades to the office and remote computers.

- Responded to the service desk tickets as a Tier 1 support specialist.

- Managed assets and tickets on System Center Service Manager (SCSM) and Happy Fox.

Information Security Analyst Trainee, CyberNow Labs (Remote, MD) Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

- Performed log analysis on Splunk and IBM QRadar SIEM solutions.

- Monitored and analyzed security alerts through Splunk and IBM QRadar to identify security anomalies for investigation and remediation.

- Analyzed IOCs using VirusTotal, AnyRun, and MX Toolbox to investigate threats.

- Analyzed PCAP files to check traffic anomalies with Wireshark.

- Ran vulnerability scanning tools such as Nmap, Tenable, and Nexpose.

- Created JIRA tickets and assigned other analysts that required additional investigation.

Teacher, Rochester Academy Charter School (Rochester, NY) Sep 2015 - Jul 2017

- Taught Turkish classes to middle and high school students.

- Coordinated the curriculum with other school teachers and improved class attendance by adding new activities.

- Provided success strategies to the student’s parents in teaching parent conferences. EDUCATION

● Cybernow Labs (Virginia, US)

An operational Security Operations Center and a hands-on, comprehensive bootcamp for information security analysts.

● Per Scholas (Baltimore, MD)

Network and IT Training.

● Ondokuz Mayıs University (Samsun, Turkey)

BA, Turkish Language and Literature

CERTIFICATIONS

● CompTIA Security+ CompTIA

● CompTIA Network+ CompTIA

● Splunk Core User Splunk

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