Logan Anaya
Flower Mound
Summary
Dynamic Firewall Engineer with proven experience at Commercial Metals Company, leading enterprise-wide migrations, and optimizing firewall performance. Skilled in TCP/IP networking and adept at cross-functional collaboration with internal stakeholders and external vendors, I enhance security compliance and incident response, ensuring robust network defenses, and operational excellence. Enthusiastic about fostering team knowledge and team collaboration.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Firewall Engineer
Commercial Metals Company
Irving
11.2023 - Current
- Checkpoint Firewall Management: Enterprise wide firewall management for Checkpoint: Configure, and deploy firewall solutions, including hardware firewalls, software firewalls, and next-generation firewalls (NGFW), based on business requirements and security best practices.
- Zscaler Firewall Management: Team Lead for enterprise wide migration to Zscaler covering over 200 global sites: US, UK, and Europe. Provide Tier 3 support and serve as a Zscaler subject matter expert (SME).
- Firewall Policy Management: Develop and enforce firewall policies, rules, and access control lists (ACLs) to control inbound and outbound network traffic, manage application access, and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data.
- Network Security Monitoring: Monitor firewall logs, network traffic and security alerts to identify and investigate potential security incidents, anomalies, and threats, and implement corrective actions or countermeasures as needed.
- Security Incident Response: Respond to security incidents, breaches, and vulnerabilities related to firewall configurations, network access controls, and perimeter defenses, and collaborate with incident response teams to contain, mitigate, and remediate security incidents.
- Firewall Performance Optimization: Optimize firewall performance, throughput, and latency by fine-tuning firewall configurations, optimizing rule sets, and implementing traffic shaping and load balancing techniques to ensure optimal network security and performance.
- Security Compliance and Auditing: Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal security policies related to firewall configurations, network segmentation, and access controls, and participate in security audits and assessments as needed.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document firewall configurations, network diagrams, and security policies, procedures, and guidelines, and provide training and knowledge sharing sessions to IT teams and end-users on firewall best practices and security awareness.
- Vendor Management: Liaise with firewall vendors, security product vendors, and service providers to evaluate, procure, and implement firewall solutions, and maintain integrity of systems through planned upgrades and hotfix upgrades.
Cyber Security Intern
CEX.IO
Naperville
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Technologies Used: Knowbe4, Greenbone, Jira, Confluence, Atlassian Cloud, PGP, CVE details (for patching), Debian security bug tracker, Ubuntu patches, Active Directory
- Conducted audits and inspections for PCI DSS to ensure confidentiality and integrity regarding security programs, policies, procedures, and tools.
- Managed and improved the documentation process for security operations.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with organizational cybersecurity standards.
- Managed SOC II audit service requests through Jira service request process flow.
- Delivered hardware and software technical support in line with service commitments and set procedures, ensuring tickets are resolved accurately and promptly.
- Overview of request queue to avoid backlog.
- Modified and managed user accounts through Active Directory.
- Activities were assigned based on user stories and tasks and updated through the use of daily SCRUM calls.
- Gathered, structured, and built data presentation for an audit of server vulnerabilities.
- Collaborated with the IT team to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, ensuring minimal risk to a limited number of systems.
- Assisted with aspects of a bug bounty program which included payment for users and identification of threats.
- Created and checked tickets within Jira for employee and IT-related issues.
- Assisted in the training of new employees on security best practices with KnowBe4, helping to ensure that all employees understand the importance of data security and their role in protecting the company's assets.
- Documentation updates with Confluence.
Education
Bachelors of Applied Arts and Sciences - Concentrations in IT and Cybersecurity
University of North Texas
Denton, Tx01.2023
Skills
- TCP/IP and networking protocols
- VPN configuration
- VLAN management
- LAN and WAN administration
- NAT implementation
- OSPF and BGP routing
- Cisco routers and switches
- Firewall security
- Wireless access point setup
- Wireshark analysis
- SolarWinds monitoring
- Cisco IOS expertise
- Putty usage
- DNS management
- DHCP configuration
- FTP and HTTP/HTTPS protocols
Technologies
- Zscaler
- Checkpoint
- Cherwell
- Grafana
- SkyHigh Proxy
- Cisco Meraki
- Solarwinds
- Cloud Computing (Azure)
- Atlassian Cloud (Jira, Confluence)
- Greenbone
- Wireshark
- Knowbe4
- Linux
- Active Directory
- Ping
- DNS Lookup
- PathPing
- SSH
- Putty
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certified, Enforced knowledge of SAAS, PAAS, and IAAS, Learned pricing differences in the variety of services offered by Azure, Scaled and load balanced VM’s according to a company's need, Determined the leading Azure solutions from network administrators to the end user
- CompTIA Security Plus Certified, Types of malware (viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, etc.), Application and service attacks (DoS, DDoS, man-in-the-middle, etc.), Secure disposal and destruction, Protocols and services (SSH, SSL/TLS, IPsec, etc.), Identity and Access Management, Legal and regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)
Timeline
Firewall Engineer
Commercial Metals Company
11.2023 - Current
Cyber Security Intern
CEX.IO
05.2022 - 12.2022
Bachelors of Applied Arts and Sciences - Concentrations in IT and Cybersecurity
University of North Texas
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