Chase Hyman
Lexington,SC
Summary
Cybersecurity Analyst with a TS/SCI with CI Poly, proficiency with SIEMs such as ELK and Splunk, Digital Forensics skills with significant focus on Windows Forensics and various other tools of the trade such as Wireshark, Tcpdump, and Ghidra.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DCO Watch Analyst - Tier 1
NIWC
Charleston, SC
09.2025 - Current
- Operated with a variety of Cybersecurity Tools such as Splunk, Elastic, Microsoft Sentinel, EnCase, and Trellix.
- Identified faulty rule logic and made recommendations for rule tuning, reducing analyst fatigue.
- Triage and identified system behaviors for a multitude of complex multi os environments, resolving 80 alerts weekly.
- Trained and assisted in the development of digital forensic training, increasing analyst capabilities
- Working knowledge of syslog, sysmon, Corelight, Winlog, and Suricata logs
Cyber Range Maintainer
US Army
Eastover, SC
02.2024 - 05.2024
- Managed daily range activities, including scheduling, resource allocation, and customer service.
- Trained on PCTE, provisioning and maintaining 15 systems for Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations
- Oversaw exercises and ensure proper running order of the environments
Basic Leader Course Student
US Army
Eastover, SC
02.2024 - 02.2024
- Was nominated to go to the leadership board for mastery of material and excellence in leadership.
- Learned to increase team productivity and develop employee capabilities.
- Mentored peers, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers.
- Collaborated to build presentations and briefs for staff to make decisions
- Oversaw day-to-day activities of 15 employees in a military establishment, ensuring employee needs were met and tasks were achieved
SOC Analyst
Cyber Command
Fort Meade, MD
01.2023 - 11.2023
- Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., Elk, Security Onion, Splunk, Wireshark, Archime.) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.
- Worked as a Trainer for Tier 1 and 2 SOC positions, training 6 individuals for exchange of duties.
- Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
- Engaged in Threat Hunting and interfaced with multiple teams and DFIR to resolve alerts and unknown traffic.
- Escalated multiple malicious up to DFIR for investigation and assisted in Triage.
- Created Kibana rules for SIEM alerting on Mitre's ATT&CK framework and implement whitelists, blacklists and exceptions.
- Worked with DCO Engineers on improving architecture projects
- Assisted in the updating of the resources on the physical environment, providing up to date knowledge on the network infrastructure which saved 10 Man hours.
Tier 1 Server Administrator
Cyber Command
Fort Meade, MD
10.2022 - 03.2023
- Served as a Tier 1 System Administrator during TFE-7, responsibilities included account management, password management, VM management, monitoring the network and reporting any problems found, and logging all network activity.
- Mobilized with the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade for the Task Force Echo 7 Operation for over 400 days in a joint effort between the South Carolina, Virginia, California, and Ohio National Guard forces and civilian contractors to run daily cyber operations from Fort Meade
- Trained in the System Developer Tier II role, which is responsible for cloud infrastructure, VM creation, configuring VMs, auditing VMs in the network, troubleshooting VMs when issues arise that cannot be fixed by Tier 1, and deleting VMs when needed.
- Constantly interfaced with clients, other teams and contractors to ensure that products were maintained and suited the clients' needs
- Presented on behalf of the section to senior leaders for key projects and assisted in developing better processes for the section which save about 10 man hours weekly
- Was given award along with the entire section for 6 months service without incident and excellent performance of duty
Cyber Operations Specialist
U.S Army
Fort Gordon
06.2021 - 10.2022
- Was nominated to go to the leadership board for mastery of material and excellence in leadership.
- Learned to increase team productivity and develop employee capabilities.
- Mentored peers, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers.
- Collaborated to build presentations and briefs for staff to make decisions
- Oversaw day-to-day activities of 15 employees in a military establishment, ensuring employee needs were met and tasks were achieved
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Policy & Ethics
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SCHigh School Diploma -
Lexington High School
Lexington, SC06-2019
Skills
- Wireshark
- ELK
- Security Onion
- Snort
- Red Hat Linux
- Red Hat Cloud Environments
- Digital Forsenics
- Threat Hunting
Certification
- TS/SCI with CI Poly -AUG 2023
- SEC+ Certified YS9NGYQ5JMVQ1432
- CySA Certified 9VE04EZSHMRQQ6K2
- GCIH Certified Mar 25th, 2025
- GCFE Certified Jun 23rd, 2025
- CEH Training - DEC 2022 - JAN 2023
- RHCSA Trained SEP 2022-OCT 2022
- GCFA Training JUN 2023-SEP 2023
Timeline
DCO Watch Analyst - Tier 1
NIWC
09.2025 - Current
Cyber Range Maintainer
US Army
02.2024 - 05.2024
Basic Leader Course Student
US Army
02.2024 - 02.2024
SOC Analyst
Cyber Command
01.2023 - 11.2023
Tier 1 Server Administrator
Cyber Command
10.2022 - 03.2023
Cyber Operations Specialist
U.S Army
06.2021 - 10.2022
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Policy & Ethics
University of South Carolina - Columbia
High School Diploma -
Lexington High School