Christopher Portas
Brooklyn,NY
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Information Security Engineer
Thrive
New York New York
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
New York, New York
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
New York, New York
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
New York, New York
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
New York, New York
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