Abraham Azumah
11056 Southcoate Village Dr, Bealeton,VA
Summary
Proficient and certified IT professional with 8 years experience. 4 as a Help Desk Technician and 4 as a SOC analyst, equipped with cutting edge technical skills like Splunk, Proofpoint, Nessus and up to date industry knowledge. Offering a diverse security background in delivering strong risk management practices along with a strong computer networking background. Dedicated Team player, Dependable, Flexible, Goal oriented and an ability to produce top quality results in deadline driven environments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
SOC Analyst
Securin
Albuquerque, NM
06.2022 - Current
- Monitor EDR's / IDS,IPS /SIEM
- Analyze reports, dashboards and alerts to provide understanding of the security posture of our enterprise environments.
- Create a new incident handling procedure, Providing constructive feedback to colleagues and clients on events and review update.
- Automate common processes to reduce workload.
- Timely response to incidents and being proactive helped increase customer trust. Generating 100% growth in a year.
- Supported Junior personnel in investigations, stand up meetings and also served as an alternate escalation point for junior analyst for issue resolution.
SOC Analyst
Slamm Technologies
Manassa, VA
03.2021 - 06.2022
- Monitored security events, correlated information to identify incidents, issues, threats, and vulnerabilities.(Splunk)
- Conducted initial triage, containment, categorization, and escalation of suspicious events and incidents.
- Educated employees on how to spot and report suspected phishing attempts in turn reducing phishing attacks by 60%.
- Assisted in the resolution of security incidents(Email Attacks) through technical analysis and data forensics leveraging Proofpoint email protection .
- Expertise in core security solutions and technologies, like Enterprise DLP, CASB, Insider Threat Management, Endpoint Security (McAfee, windows Defender, Isolation & Proxy
- Developed and maintain security and incident response plans, playbooks, procedures, and other documentation.
- Created reports on security trends, metrics, events, and incidents
- Modified configurations, setting and reports in Tenable
- Work with cross-departmental IT staff to assist with the understanding and remediation of discovered vulnerabilities.
- Research Tenable false positive/negative results and consult with Tenable technical support and engineering teams.
- Provide senior management with status/metrics of the vulnerability management program.
Security Specialist
Protection Connection
Fredericksburg, Va
01.2020 - 07.2020
- Assisted Clients by providing SME assistance, and root-cause analysis on vulnerabilities
- Worked through prioritized vulnerabilities for patch remediation with respective asset owners
- Assisted in reporting asset changes through Client’s technology, and processes
- Learnt and adapted to Client’s culture, security strategies, security goals, security objectives, and security capabilities
- Advised in prioritization of patch deployment
- Classified and prioritized the risk of all vulnerabilities taking into consideration mitigating factors and impacts of internal and external threats
- Implemented security methodologies and standards like OWASP and SCAP
Help Desk Technician
I engineering Ghana
Accra, Ghana, Greater Accra
04.2015 - 05.2018
- Maintained composure and patience in face of difficult customer situations, applying de-escalation techniques and positive customer support.
- Troubleshot daily IT desktop client issues, supporting multiple departments and various offices.
- Researched issues on various computer systems and databases to determine resolutions to problems and answer inquiries.
Education
BSc. - Telecommunication Engineering
Ghana Technology University
07.2014
COMPTIA SECURITY + CE - COMO001021703750
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Skills
- Tenable Nessus
- Python
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft O365
- Hive
- Cisco Stealthwatch
- Risk Mitigation
- Microsoft Office
- Data Management
- IDS/IPS
- Email Threat Detection
- Splunk(SIEM),
- OSINT
- Qualys
- Mitre Att&ck
- Proofpoint
- Threat Hunting
- End Point Management
- People Skills
- Reliable and Trustworthy
- Work Ethic
- Friendly, Positive Attitude
- Critical Thinking
- Training & Development
- MS Office
Timeline
SOC Analyst
Securin
06.2022 - Current
SOC Analyst
Slamm Technologies
03.2021 - 06.2022
Security Specialist
Protection Connection
01.2020 - 07.2020
Help Desk Technician
I engineering Ghana
04.2015 - 05.2018
BSc. - Telecommunication Engineering
Ghana Technology University
COMPTIA SECURITY + CE - COMO001021703750
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