Alan Lawley

At the U.S. Navy, I spearheaded cybersecurity initiatives, significantly enhancing data protection through innovative action plans and compliance monitoring. My expertise in intrusion detection and commitment to teamwork fortified our security posture. Achievements include deploying cutting-edge intrusion detection systems and leading vulnerability assessments, demonstrating both technical acumen and collaborative excellence. Highly trained individual knowledgeable in implementing effective security strategies that are compliant with government regulations. A resourceful Information Systems Security Manager with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision making skills.

• Supervised team of 55 staff members and collaborated with multiple assessment teams and incident response teams to create, update, and maintain 20 threat-hunting playbooks and 33 standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistent, repeatable, and effective threat-hunting practices.
• Participated in 14 red, blue, and purple team exercises to test the effectiveness of security controls, identify detection gaps, and improve threat detection and response strategies for 8 systems, which resulted in successful certification on classified and unclassified systems.
• Documented and resolved 145 cybersecurity incidents, which led to zero data compromise. Worked closely with incident response teams to investigate security incidents, providing detailed threat analysis and support for containment and remediation efforts.
• Leveraged threat intelligence from multiple sources (open source, commercial, and internal) to enhance threat-hunting efforts, correlate data, create new threat hypotheses, and identify new threat vectors.
• Completed 6 Risk Management Framework accreditation packages, which required strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and methodologies.

CompTIA Security+

INE Junior Penetration Tester