LEONARD FOTE
Gaithersburg,MD
Summary
Security Analyst with over 5 years experience working with technologies such as EDRs, SIEM, Vulnerability management, Firewalls, MDR, DLP etc. Experienced in a wide range of technologies with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to new environments.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SOC Analyst
USAID
Washington , DC
01.2021 - Current
- Conduct security event analysis and validation, triage validated incidents, perform initial containment where feasible, research incident and enrich incident case documentation, and escalate incident for further analysis, containment, and eradication
- Monitor, protect, and defend enterprise perimeter against malicious network traffic
- Monitor, protect, and defend internal networks and hosts against ongoing and emerging threats
- Experience monitoring logs with contextual operation data from functional areas correlate events and identify security issues, threats, and vulnerabilities
- Review and analyze threat intelligence information and proactively search application, system, network logs to hunt for and thwart relevant threats identified threats
- Prepare and perform shift handover briefing to communicate completed and pending activities, and relay situational awareness information
- Contribute to development and maintenance of SOC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to establish and continuously improve organization operating knowledge base
- Participate in post-incident activities and contribute to lessons learned to improve security operations
- Provide support in preparation of management threat reports and briefings, and recommendations
- Provide sound technical recommendations that enable remediation of security issues
- Partner with security engineering to develop and refine SIEM correlation rules
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships/partnerships with cyber security and infrastructure support teams throughout Information Technology organization, as well as business units
- Strong customer service skills and decision-making skills
- In-depth knowledge of Intelligence-driven defense utilizing Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) and MITRE attack framework
- Good working knowledge of TCP/IP Networking and OSI model
- Regularly review vendor security documentation, policies, and procedures to assess compliance and identify areas for improvement
- Develop and maintain vendor incident response plans, including procedures for reporting and managing security incidents
- Coordinate with vendors during incident response activities, ensuring timely resolution
- Minimize impact of security breaches by 98%
- Monitor systems for suspicious activities, detect potential threats, and respond promptly.
Information Security Analyst
Home Depot
Mankato , MN
06.2018 - 12.2021
- Responded to computer security incidents, conducted threat analysis, and achieved substantial impact by reducing incidents by 98%.
- Identified and act on malicious or anomalous activity
- Conducted analysis using variety of tools and data sets to identify indicators of malicious activity on network
- Performed detailed investigation and response activities for potential security incidents
- Provided accurate and priority driven analysis on cyber activity/threats
- Performed payload analysis of packets
- Recommended implementation of counter-measures or mitigating controls
- Ensured all pertinent information is obtained to allow for identification, containment, eradication, and recovery actions to occur in time sensitive environment
- Collaborated with technical and threat intelligence analysts to provide indications and warnings, and contributes to predictive analysis of malicious activity
- Created and continuously improve standard operating procedures used by SOC
- Resolved and coordinated resolution of cyber security events
- Monitored incoming event queues for potential security incidents
- Created, managed, and dispatched incident tickets
- Monitored external event sources for security intelligence and actionable incidents
- Maintained incident logs with relevant activity
- Documented investigation results, ensuring relevant details are passed to SOC Lead, Incident Management team and stakeholders
- Participated in root cause analysis or lessons learned sessions
Tech Support Analyst
University of Maryland
College Park , MD
02.2015 - 06.2018
- Responded to escalated tickets, provide solutions for reported customer problems, and prioritize and manage ticket queue
- Supported in-office walk-ups and remote assistance while providing great customer experience
- Identified, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems and provide employee training
- Responded in timely manner to service issues and requests
- Facilitated repairs and maintenance of laptops, desktops, printers, AV equipment and other equipment as required
- Utilized ticketing system to log, track and document incidents to ensure customer problems are resolved to customer satisfaction
- Handled projects assigned by management
- Worked independently on day-to-day operations
- Supported special events at remote locations as needed
- Performed related work as assigned
Education
Bachelor Degree - Accounting, Cameroon
University of Yaounde
Yaounde, Cameroon06.2008
Skills
- SKILLS/TOOLS
- Cisco AMP for End Points , Cisco Threat Grid, Cisco Umbrella
- Azure
- Microsoft Email Header Analyzer
- CyberChef, CrowdStrik, VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, Whois, Splunk ES
- Proofpoint Threat Response, Proofpoint TAP(URL),Proofpoint TRAP
- Microsoft Suite
- JIRA, ServiceNow (SNOW)
- Active Directory
- TCP/IP
- Google DLP
- Admin Console, Google Vault
- IPVoid
- O365 Console
Certification
- Security +
- CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) .
Timeline
SOC Analyst
USAID
01.2021 - Current
Information Security Analyst
Home Depot
06.2018 - 12.2021
Tech Support Analyst
University of Maryland
02.2015 - 06.2018
Bachelor Degree - Accounting, Cameroon
University of Yaounde
- Security +
- CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) .
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