Clifford Ajong
Springdale,MD
Summary
SOC analyst with over 5 years’ experience and a wealth of experience across high-demand operational environments. Proactive in network monitoring with SIEM tools, I have profound knowledge in ensuring optimal security through identifying and analyzing threats and suspicious events as identified by security tools. Have a mastery of using various security tools to perform logs and packet analyses with the overall objective of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, or data. Broad knowledge on identifying endpoints that are vulnerable using security tools such as Rapid7 and Nessus and providing metrics on vulnerable endpoints. Detailed oriented and a team player.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SOC Analyst
Washington tech solutions
10.2022 - Current
- 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity with focus on Security Operations.
- Ensure integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational security policies, through monitoring of vulnerability scanning devices.
- Perform Vulnerability scans and provide detail reports including remediation procedures.
- Strong hands-on experience in security management tools like IBM QRadar and Splunk including log
- Source on-boarding, creating reports and dashboards, writing custom parsers and correlation rules.
- Perform MITRE ATT&CK analysis on incoming security alerts from multiple security tools.
- Knowledge on advance capabilities like Threat Hunting and Malware Analysis
- Exposure to regulatory compliance like PCI-DSS and ISO 27001
- Good experience in working/communicating with cross-functional IT infrastructure teams like network, system, database, application, security to build and manage effective security operations
- Capable of independently learning new technology by utilizing available documentation and vendor support resources
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
SOC Analyst
Bavin Corp Consulting
03.2020 - 10.2022
- Alert monitoring and Incident response using Splunk SIEM
- Analyze threats by taking events from Firewalls, Endpoints, Servers, IDS/IPS etc.
- Did triage to identify whether alerts were justified or false positive
- Perform detailed analysis on threats that are triggered and suspected to be true positives.
- Investigating incidents, remediation, tracking and follow-up for incident closure with concerned teams and stakeholders.
- Interact with Security Owners/Stakeholders, L2 & L3 Level infrastructure teams for remediation of security alerts.
- Generation & formatting of reports for Nessus Vulnerability scans performed.
- I did Partnered with Security Engineers to understand and improve monitoring, logging, and alert prioritization to enhance SOC investigation and response.
- Investigate malicious IPs, Domains, and URLs using Open-Source tools and escalate ticket to network team for blocking using ticketing tool (ServiceNow).
- Engage with vendor support to troubleshoot issues with SIEM platform
- Preparation of Security Operations Handbook.
SOC Analyst
TECH GLOBAL
04.2019 - 02.2020
- Monitoring Security alerts generated by SIEM
- Analyzing SIEM alerts by following playbooks and using various tools
- Generating tickets for validating incidents
- Assist in identifying Root Causes of incidents and follow-up with SMEs for incident closure
- Assist team lead in generating weekly reports
- Documentation of alerts
- Draft Shift Handover.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science
University Of Buea
Cameroon12.2016
Skills
- Wireshark
- Splunk
- Nessus
- Rapid7 (InsightVM & Nexpose)
- ServiceNow
- Proofpoint
- Darktrace
- Microsoft defender for endpoint
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Azure
- OSINT (Virustotal, Urlscan, Anyrun, Abuseip etc)
- Palo Alto (Firewall)
Certification
CompTIA Certified Security
Areas Of Interest
- Threat Hunting
- Threat Intelligence
- SOAR (IR Automation)
- Malware Analysis
- Forensics
References
Will be provided upon demand & Open to work for any employer
Timeline
SOC Analyst
Washington tech solutions
10.2022 - Current
SOC Analyst
Bavin Corp Consulting
03.2020 - 10.2022
SOC Analyst
TECH GLOBAL
04.2019 - 02.2020
Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science
University Of Buea
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