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Habtamu Desta

Alexandria,VA

Summary

Cyber Security Analyst with 4 years of experience developing and implementing security solutions in fast-paced environments. Skilled in incident response, and automation.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cyber Security Analyst

TATA Consultancy Service
02.2021 - Current
  • Extensive experience in Microsoft Sentinel SIEM for Monitoring, investigating, and responding to security incidents.
  • Proficient in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for writing custom detection rules, queries and dashboard.
  • Skilled in developing customs use cases to detect emerging threats and specific attack patterns.
  • Experienced in finetuning alert’s rule logic to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
  • Proficient in correlating security events across logs from various sources(Azure, O365, MS Defender, etc).
  • Hands-on experience in creating anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-malware, safe link, safe attachment and mail flow policies in Microsoft Defender.
  • Hands on experience in developing automated playbooks and workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel and SOAR platform for alert triage and response.
  • Hands on experience in analyzing phishing emails, suspicious links, and malicious attachment.
  • Performed SIEM migration to Sentinel.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Networks and Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus
Maryland
12.2019

Associate of Applied Science - Cyber Security

Northern Virginia Community College
Virginia
08.2016

Skills

  • Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
  • Kusto Query Language (KQL)
  • Custom detection rules
  • Developing use cases
  • Finetuning alert rule logic
  • Correlating security events
  • Creating anti-phishing policies
  • Creating mail flow policies
  • Developing automated playbooks
  • Developing workbooks
  • Analyzing phishing emails
  • Analyzing suspicious links
  • Analyzing malicious attachments
  • SIEM migration

Certification

  • Certified Information system Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
  • CompTIA 701- Security +

Timeline

Cyber Security Analyst

TATA Consultancy Service
02.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Computer Networks and Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus

Associate of Applied Science - Cyber Security

Northern Virginia Community College
Habtamu Desta