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Nolan McFarlin

Ann Arbor,MI

Summary

Detail-oriented cybersecurity professional, with a drive for everything cybersecurity has to offer. With a 4-year degree in Information Assurance and almost 4 years of experience working in IT, my goal is to leverage my expertise in cybersecurity to be a valuable team member for an innovative organization that values continuous improvement and professional development.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

CyberForce|Q
04.2023 - Current
  • Working in an internal team that exclusively performs penetration testing, incident response, vulnerability scanning, OSINT investigations, and tier 3.
  • Assisted in penetration tests of all types, including internal, external, physical and social engineering.
  • Experience in leading multiple emergency incident response engagements for companies in healthcare, business, and government sectors.
  • Conducted an independent technical review and penetration test of a large-scale corporate network as well as authored the final report.
  • Wrote scheduled searches in CrowdStrike Falcon EDR.
  • Experienced in writing event search queries for Splunk, CrowdStrike event search, and Elasticsearch.
  • Used digital forensics tools (Autopsy, FTK imager, etc.) to recover data, investigate ransomware attacks, and more.

CYBERSECURITY ANALYST

CYBERFORCE|Q
05.2022 - 03.2023
  • Made use of popular firewalls, EDRs, SIEMs, and other tools to assist in investigation and remediation of alerts.
  • Maintained regular contact with InfoSec teams in healthcare, government, and private business capacities.
  • Experienced in writing custom Python scripts for automation and general software development tasks.

EVENT RESPONSE ANALYST

CYBERFORCE|Q
12.2021 - 05.2022
  • Triaged alerts coming into the SOC at Tier 1.
  • Escalated true positives to Tier 2 for further investigation and remediation.
  • Worked in a multitude of cybersecurity technologies to assist in alert triage and investigation.
  • Worked in an internal DevOps team to work towards playbook automation of alerts.

IT TECHNICIAN

NEW PATHS, INC
10.2020 - 05.2022
  • Assisted all employees and executive staff with hardware/software, phone, and peripheral device issues.
  • Developed, coordinated, and carried out IT projects with the Manager of IT at New Paths.
  • Deployed and configured Security Onion from scratch to give the team more visibility into network performance and security.

SERVICE DESK AGENT

ATOS/MCLAREN HEALTHCARE
09.2019 - 07.2020
  • First point of contact for over 10,000 McLaren users across their regional hospitals and remote sites across Michigan.
  • Resolved tier 1 issues including access, computer hardware, printers, applications, and more.
  • Escalated high priority issues to on-site field service technicians and assigned tasks to teams within the IT service application.

Education

B.S IN CYBER DEFENSE AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE CANDIDATE -

BAKER COLLEGE
Flint, MI
12.2022

Skills

  • Threat Hunting
  • Network Security
  • Linux
  • Computer Hardware
  • Python
  • OSINT
  • Incident Response
  • Security Analysis

Certification

  • CompTIA IT Fundamentals
  • CompTIA Security+

Timeline

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

CyberForce|Q
04.2023 - Current

CYBERSECURITY ANALYST

CYBERFORCE|Q
05.2022 - 03.2023

EVENT RESPONSE ANALYST

CYBERFORCE|Q
12.2021 - 05.2022

IT TECHNICIAN

NEW PATHS, INC
10.2020 - 05.2022

SERVICE DESK AGENT

ATOS/MCLAREN HEALTHCARE
09.2019 - 07.2020

B.S IN CYBER DEFENSE AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE CANDIDATE -

BAKER COLLEGE

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