Adesola Adeola
Lewis Center,OH
Summary
Dynamic IT Security Analyst with proven expertise at STRS Ohio in threat hunting and incident response. Skilled in automating workflows with Python, enhancing security monitoring, and mentoring teams. Recognized for reducing investigation time by over 60% while demonstrating strong attention to detail and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Security Analyst
STRS Ohio
12.2021 - Current
- Perform continuous insider threat monitoring and advanced threat hunts across host logs, network telemetry, authentication logs, EDR data (CrowdStrike), and DLP events
- Build automated workflows in Python and PowerShell to enrich, filter, and correlate high-volume security signals, reducing manual investigation time by over 60%.
- Partner with software developers, and IT operation teams to enhance log ingestion pipelines, improving visibility into endpoint, identity, and cloud activities.
- Identify infrastructure gaps—such as missing telemetry, inconsistent event schemas, or lack of audit trails, and drive cross-functional efforts to implement logging improvements and automated evidence collection.
- Develop auto-resolution actions and false-positive reduction logic using heuristics, machine-learning-assisted scoring, and contextual metadata.
- Lead investigations end-to-end, including scoping, triage, forensics, documentation, and cross-team communication.
- Mentor interns and engineers through investigation walkthrough, query-building sessions, and automation training.
- Contribute to detection engineering by writing and tuning analytics aligned with attacker TTPs and internal misuse scenarios.
Direct Support Professional
CRSI
11.2016 - 11.2021
- Supported individuals with developmental disabilities in daily living activities and community integration.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement personalized care plans.
- Assisted clients in achieving personal goals through skill-building and encouragement.
- Monitored client progress, documenting behavioral changes and responding to needs effectively.
IT Technical Support Specialist
Globacom Telecommunication
05.2013 - 06.2016
- Oversee the daily performance of computer systems.
- Confer with staff, users, and management to establish requirements for new systems or modifications.
- Used ticketing systems to manage and process support actions and requests .
- Provided high-level technical support by resolving inquiries by phone, e-mail, and web consistent with department and team service levels and goals.
- Prepare evaluations of software or hardware and recommend improvements or upgrades.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT10-2024
Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Ohio, OH08-2022
Skills
- Incident response planning
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Attention to detail
- Scripting
- Intrusion detection
- Security monitoring
- Organizational skills
- Threat Hunting
- IT Automation
- Cybersecurity frameworks
- Cloud security
Certification
- Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)•
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Project+
- CompTIA A+
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)- EC-Council.
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
IT Security Analyst
STRS Ohio
12.2021 - Current
Direct Support Professional
CRSI
11.2016 - 11.2021
IT Technical Support Specialist
Globacom Telecommunication
05.2013 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity
Columbus State Community College