Brian Araujo
San Diego,CA
Summary
Goal-oriented IT professional with significant success in planning, analyzing and implementing of security plans and initiatives. Excel in developing comprehensive, secure network designs and systems.
Overview
1
1
Certification
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Information Security Specialist
Montecito Bank&Trust
Santa Barbara, CA
08.2022 - Current
- Run the DLP program through Forcepoint by monitoring alerts, validating activity with associates and managers as well as reporting any suspicious activity that needs to be looked into by stakeholders.
- Running phishing campaigns through Proofpoint on a monthly basis and reporting all needed items and failed associates to upper management.
- Monitoring reported emails by associates validating legitimacy Proofpoint applications and open source applications or informing associates of malicious emails. Reporting all items to the Risk Committee and FS-ISAC to contribute to the Industry.
- Attending industry meetings with FS-ISAC and other organizations to documents industry activity and have a scope of current threat hunting findings. This is also reported to the Information security team, Technology department, and others as needed.
- In charge of all IT risk assessments, system owner high risk core applications, and certifications.
- Insider risk reporting, incident reporting, and quarterly information security reporting to the risk committee.
- Review technology reports on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis in splunk including: Active Directory reports, Physical Access reports, Firewall configuration and MSSP reports, Internet access reports, and Proofpoint secureshare reports.
Technical Support Specialist
Andres IT Services
Nipomo, CA
08.2021 - 08.2021
- Installed 100s of APs on different company locations based on contract requests.
- Completed network refreshes for large technology companies including: servers, switches, desktops, and POS systems.
- Wrote detailed service reports describing work completed, issues and recommendations.
Security Administration Analyst
Mechanics Bank Commercial Banking
Santa Maria, CA
09.2019 - 08.2020
- Mechanics Bank bought out Rabobank N.A. Creating this transition and change in job role.
- Managed user authentication and authorization while mapping out RBAC model for over 100 applications. Used Azure AD for authentication to web applications and applications that has integration ability.
- Managed all user certifications for over 200 applications on a quarterly, bi-yearly, and yearly basis depending on the applications risk.
- Completed IT risk assessments with business and system owners on a yearly basis to define certification frequency and organizational risk.
Information Security Analyst
Rabobank NA
Santa Maria, CA
09.2018 - 09.2019
- Developed and documented risk management systems. Completed over 100 IT risk assessments on WolfPac system to identified high risk applications and completed certifications for them on a quarterly basis and per request.
- Managed phishing campaigns on a monthly basis reporting all failed associates to upper management.
- Managed IAM for over a dozen applications of high risk while documenting all changes to the application and creating all needed items to auditors.
Service Desk Technician
Rabobank NA
Santa Maria, CA
10.2017 - 09.2018
- This position was originally an intern position for the first 7 months and scaled up to a FTE and then was requested by the Information Security team.
- Assisted customers with various types of technical issues via email, live chat and telephone.
- Created new accounts, reset passwords and configured access to servers and file management software for users.
- Maintained documents by managing files following established procedures.
Skills
- Dark Trace
- Firewall Management
- Network Security Management
- IT Risk Assessment
- Disaster Recovery Management
- Encryption
- Data Security
- Regulatory Compliance and Documentation
- Software Licenses and Patches
- Forcepoint
- Proofpoint
- Azure AD Security
- IAM Management
- RBAC
- Cyber Arc
- Splunk
- Active Directory Security
Certification
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA A+
Timeline
Senior Information Security Specialist
Montecito Bank&Trust
08.2022 - Current
Technical Support Specialist
Andres IT Services
08.2021 - 08.2021
Security Administration Analyst
Mechanics Bank Commercial Banking
09.2019 - 08.2020
Information Security Analyst
Rabobank NA
09.2018 - 09.2019
Service Desk Technician
Rabobank NA
10.2017 - 09.2018