Cyber Security and Cloud Engineering Specialist

Landon Murdock

Houston, TX

770-***-**** - *********@*****.***

Professional Experience

Cyber Security and Cloud Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions 1/2022 - 09/2025 SOC Analyst 03/2022 - 05/2022

● Investigated 20+ security events a day using Microsoft Sentinel to identify and respond to threats

● Communicated with users to assess suspicious activities and educate on security best practices SOC Engineer 05/2022 - 07/2023

● Consistently updated and fine-tuned Sentinel security rules to protect the client environment against the most recent threats and reduce false positives

● Updated the SOC playbook to reflect new security procedures and enhance readability in a crisis Disk Encryption Specialist 08/2022 - 03/2024

● Ensured 99.7% encryption compliance on over 3000 client devices

● Replaced legacy reporting systems with Microsoft InTune to increase reliability and efficiency

● Modernized the encryption SLA reporting process to reflect the change to InTune Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Analyst 08/2022 - 03/2024

● Managed DLP incidents on Cognizant’s largest healthcare account to ensure Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) were handled properly

● Monitored and analyzed DLP alerts using Symantec DLP to detect and prevent data exfiltration Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Subject Matter Expert 03/2024 - 09/2025

● Took responsibility for the DLP program protecting millions of patients’ data

● Presented weekly reports to client leadership regarding DLP incidents, trends, and risk assessments.

● Configured Microsoft Purview for sensitivity labeling and to fill in gaps left by other tools

● Upgraded the client’s DLP tool from Symantec DLP to ProofPoint DLP to modernize their DLP infrastructure

● Fine-tuned DLP rules to increase employee efficiency while reducing false positives

● Ran a security assessment of the client’s environment to ensure their new enterprise-wide generative AI chatbot would not have access to sensitive data

Education

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia, 2017 - 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Cognitive Science Certifications

CompTIA Network+, updated 2024

CompTIA Security+, updated 2024

Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification, 2024 ISC2 CISSP, 2026 (pending endorsement)

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