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Connor Brady

Pasadena,MD

Summary

Adept at threat hunting and demonstrating exceptional analytical thinking, I significantly enhanced General Dynamics IT's security posture. My expertise in vulnerability assessment and incident response management, coupled with a proactive approach, resulted in a reduction in system vulnerabilities, showcasing my ability to safeguard critical infrastructure against emerging threats.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Vulnerability Management Engineer

General Dynamics IT
Baltimore, MD
07.2024 - Current
  • Monitor for vulnerabilities within applications, endpoints, databases, networking, and mobile and cloud services.
  • Collaborate with IT and security operations to manage internal and external facing systems to identify, track, and remediate system and application vulnerabilities.
  • Support IT operations' responsibility to remediate system and application vulnerabilities.
  • Conduct continuous discovery, vulnerability assessment, and remediation status of enterprise-wide assets.
  • Prioritize vulnerability remediation based on criticality, exploit probability, rating, and business risk exposure.
  • Document, prioritize, recommend, validate, and report on the state of vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborate as a purple team with colleagues in offense, defense, operators, threat intelligence, and risk management roles.
  • Recommend tactical options to reduce the attack surface, containment alternatives, and impede attackers.
  • Work closely with infrastructure teams to advise and support remediation efforts to close vulnerability exposure to new threats in the wild, and verify the organization’s security posture against them.
  • Remain current with emerging threats, and share knowledge with colleagues to improve security posture.
  • Maintain an active database comprising third-party assets, their vulnerability state, remediation recommendations, overall security posture, and potential threats to the business.
  • Define key performance indicators and metrics to illustrate efficacy in vulnerability management.
  • Automate asset inventory, vulnerability discovery, and reporting.
  • Liaise with the security engineering team to improve monitoring and response workflow.
  • Maintain documentation related to vulnerability policies and procedures.
  • Assist with host and application hardening, and attack surface reduction across company-wide assets.
  • Serve as a point of contact for new and existing vulnerability-related issues.
  • Supervise testing, validation, vulnerability remediation, and controls.
  • Assist with change management operations to ensure vulnerabilities are not introduced.
  • Provide vulnerability education and guidance to stakeholders, developers, IT leaders, and business leaders as needed.
  • Willingness to work nonstandard business hours to respond to, and mitigate threats.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Information Security Analyst

General Dynamics IT
Baltimore, MD
07.2022 - 07.2024
  • Monitors and analyzes Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to identify security issues for remediation.
  • Recognizes potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts, and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information.
  • Evaluates firewall change requests and assesses organizational risk.
  • Communicates alerts to agencies regarding intrusions and compromises to their network infrastructure, applications, and operating systems.
  • Assists with the implementation of countermeasures or mitigating controls.
  • Assists in conducting regular audits to ensure that systems are being operated securely, and that information systems security policies and procedures are being implemented as defined in security plans.
  • Assists in developing, testing, and operating routine firewalls, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems, and software deployment tools, following routine instructions.
  • Safeguards the network against unauthorized infiltration, modification, destruction, or disclosure.
  • Researches, evaluates, tests, and implements new security software or devices.
  • Assists in conducting investigations of information systems security violations and incidents, reporting as necessary to management.
  • Ensures the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by the technical enforcement of organizational security policies, through the monitoring of vulnerability scanning devices.
  • Performs periodic and on-demand system audits and vulnerability assessments, including user accounts, application access, file system, and external web integrity scans to determine compliance.
  • Prepares incident reports of analysis methodology and results.
  • Ensure compliance with regulations and privacy laws.

Help Desk Technician - II

General Dynamics IT
Baltimore, MD
02.2021 - 07.2022
  • Handled customer service issues by providing guidance or escalating for advanced support.
  • Resolved network connectivity issues.
  • Conducted remote diagnostics to identify and solve technical problems.
  • Reviewed support cases for technical and troubleshooting accuracy and identified needed process improvements.
  • Maintained up-to-date case documentation for future reference.
  • Performed troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
  • Managed user accounts including passwords resets, account creation and deletion.
  • Created user accounts, maintained system documentation, tested and evaluated new technology.
  • Created and implemented new troubleshooting processes, improving efficiency and customer satisfaction while reducing costs.
  • Escalated complex issues to senior technical staff, ensuring proper follow-through until resolved.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity Management & Policy

University of Maryland - University College
Hyattsville, MD
05.2020

Associate of Science - Network And System Administration

Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, MD
05.2018

Skills

  • Threat hunting
  • Security architecture
  • Intrusion detection
  • Malware analysis
  • Programming languages
  • Analytical thinking
  • Incident response management
  • Zero-day exploit prevention
  • Log analysis
  • Cybersecurity frameworks
  • Cloud security
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Identity and Access management
  • SIEM management
  • NIST

Timeline

Vulnerability Management Engineer

General Dynamics IT
07.2024 - Current

Information Security Analyst

General Dynamics IT
07.2022 - 07.2024

Help Desk Technician - II

General Dynamics IT
02.2021 - 07.2022

Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity Management & Policy

University of Maryland - University College

Associate of Science - Network And System Administration

Anne Arundel Community College

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