Christopher Portas
Brooklyn,NY
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Information Security Engineer
Thrive
09.2024 - 01.2025
- Integrated alerts from O365, Defender, and DUO into SaaS Alerts platform, accelerating response times to potential threats, resulting in a reduced MTTR
- Managed escalations from the SOC, resolving Critical and High severity alerts
- Led phishing and security education initiatives, analyzing click rates and incidents to identify high-risk users, and tailor training for stronger security awareness
- Collaborated closely with Head of Security Engineering and CISO to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities within the environment
Information Security Engineer
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
10.2022 - 09.2024
- Served as the point lead on cybersecurity incidents, managing playbook compliance, timelines, investigations, and documentation to ensure thorough analysis
- Conducted annual firewall rule review using Algosec to assess insecure ports and investigate risk to firm
- Led the Vulnerability Management process from alert detection to fix validation, ensuring remediation of Critical and High vulnerabilities
- Reviewed and updated security policies to ensuring compliance with NYDFS, NIST (CSF, RMF, 800-53, 800-171), FINRA, ISO 27001 and CIS, strengthening regulatory adherence
- Developed a CSIRT alert tracker in Excel to automate SLA management, simplifying vulnerability tracking and reducing overhead
- Assisted with authenticated scan setup and schedule with tenable increasing visibility of vulnerabilities
- Coordinated vulnerability remediation using Tenable, reducing open vulnerabilities by 50%
- Presented security metrics and KRIs to management and executives, offering insight into the organization's risk landscape and enabling proactive risk mitigation strategies
- Conducted security assessments to ensure 90% compliance with patch cycles
End User Support Team Lead
Soros Fund Management
08.2019 - 11.2021
- Led a global team of 5 engineers to provide IT support, ensuring the smooth operation of infrastructure and applications
- Directed cybersecurity onboarding, delivering awareness training and best practices to enhance security posture
- Reduced mobile expenses by $10,000 annually through a wireless account audit project and ongoing audits, while also leading a hardware refresh project that cut completion time by 40%, lowering both working hours and project costs
Client Services Engineer
Alphaserve Technologies
05.2018 - 08.2019
- Developed and implemented PowerShell scripts to modify mailbox permissions in Exchange and O365, reducing response time for requests
- Provided white-glove on-call support to C-level executives, extending service contracts and driving increased company revenues
Technical Analyst
New York University
02.2015 - 05.2018
- Provided technical support, assisting with system configurations, and resolving hardware and software issues for 50 issues/request a day
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
NY, NY01.2015
Skills
- CrowdStrike
- Synack
- InfoSecIQ
- Tenable
- Imperva
- Digital Shadows
- AlgoSec
- Altiris
- Cofense Triage & PhishMe
- FortiSIEM
- Proofpoint
- Netwrix Auditor
Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)².
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) - International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)².
Timeline
Information Security Engineer
Thrive
09.2024 - 01.2025
Information Security Engineer
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
10.2022 - 09.2024
End User Support Team Lead
Soros Fund Management
08.2019 - 11.2021
Client Services Engineer
Alphaserve Technologies
05.2018 - 08.2019
Technical Analyst
New York University
02.2015 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice
Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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