KRISTIN BARRETT
Milwaukee,WI
Summary
Driven engineer with 3+ years of experience. Proven ability to triage and analyze security events, assist with real and simulated incidents with a live threat, and use of various tooling to extract information. Effectively collaborate across teams to enhance the security of the infrastructure. While being continuously committed to learning and improving to apply the newest industry practices.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
DFIR Engineer 1
Northwestern Mutual
01.2023 - Current
- Monitoring of security events using a SIEM and other feeds, looking for significant events and unexpected Network activity
- Triage of escalated security events that require review and analysis, provide troubleshooting to an event, investigate the potential cause, and recommend a course of action
- Proactively hunt and identify malicious activity in various log sources such as splunk and crowdstrike.
- Collaborate with Detection Engineering and Red Team to identify ways to better monitor and detect suspicious behavior
- Stay updated on cyber threats and identify various methods to detect them
- Participate in an on call schedule with other IR team members
Cybersecurity Intern
Northwestern Mutual
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Support the incident response team in investigations and remediation efforts.
- Identified unusual activities and potential security incidents, escalating them to senior team members for further analysis.
- Gained familiarity with various different tools such as Crowdstrike, Splunk, Tanium, and Proofpoint.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams on projects aimed at improving overall organizational security posture.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
South Carolina State University
06.2020 - 06.2022
- Reviewed literature on Fog computing
- Conducted Cloud-Fog Simulations using iFogSim tool
- Used scripting to change parameters such as IP address, MAC address, and port numbers either periodically or on detection of intrusions.
- Conducted an experimental evaluation of network diversification based moving target defense (MTD) schemes for smart farming.
- Studied the effectiveness of a reactive MTD scheme in preventing reconnaissance
- Ran simulations that show that both reconnaissance and brute-force attacks can be averted by using a reactive MTD that shuffles port numbers on detecting intrusions
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Cyber Security
South Carolina State University (SCSU), College
12.2022
Skills
- Running experiments
- Research and analysis
- Research reporting
- Bash scripting
- Cloud computing
- MacOS/Windows
- Kali Linux
- RaspberryOS
- Python/Java
- Internet of things (IoT)
Accomplishments
- Presented research on IoT application model for smart farming at IEEE SoutheastCon 2021
- Presented my research on Network Diversification Approaches for Preventing Cyber-Attacks in Smart Farming to Secretary Jennifer Granholm of the Department of Energy
- Presented research on smart farming security at Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference
- Presented research on smart farming security at 1890 ARD Symposium.
Affiliations
- National Society of Black Engineers August 2019 - Present
- Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence January 2020 - Present
- Forming the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) January 2020 - Present
RELEVANT COURSE WORK
- Introduction to Cyber Security
- Algorithm Analysis
- Software Engineering
- Cryptography & Network Security
- Application and Data Security with Privacy
- Database Management
Timeline
DFIR Engineer 1
Northwestern Mutual
01.2023 - Current
Cybersecurity Intern
Northwestern Mutual
06.2022 - 01.2023
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
South Carolina State University
06.2020 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Cyber Security
South Carolina State University (SCSU), College
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