OMNIA TAHA
Charlottesville,VA
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Information Security Engineer
The City of Charlottesville
03.2022 - Current
- Lead incident response for all security incidents, owning vulnerability management across 850 workstations and 170 servers
- Implemented Intune Compliance Policies and Conditional Access Policies for workstation hardening
- Advised internal and external resources on security best practices for the City of Charlottesville
- Reduced phish-prone click rate by 14% using Knowbe4 security awareness training within the span of six months
- Developed the City of Charlottesville Incident Response Plan and remediated 1.2K sensitive files
- Supported network engineers with security modeling and maintained NIST 800-53 standards
- Modified Varonis alerts, resulting in a 60% decrease in false positives
- Generated weekly and quarterly reports for sensitive data present in the O365 environment, taking actionable tasks to remediate
- Conducted security audits and assessments, identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in network infrastructure
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain security measures, ensuring compliance with industry standards
- Proficiency in enriching threat intelligence through various methods including DNS lookups, and querying threat repositories
- Knowledgeable in threat modeling and adversary tactics frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain
- Proficient in cyber threat landscape, open-source research, and identification of nation-state actors
- Engaged in threat hunting activities to identify emerging TTPs, facilitating the development of detection mechanisms using an intelligence-driven approach.
Information Technology Specialist
The University of Virginia
08.2021 - 03.2022
- Traveled within the Medical School for troubleshooting aid and providing on-site support to four auditoriums at UVA.
- Managed 200+ computers and retuning three policies within JAMF (Apple MDM).
- Analyzed and resolving bug issues with VMED (Medical School site) including failed session requests and bad gateway errors.
- Collaborated with the team to analyze bugs, and flaws, and provide better support for students.
- Troubleshooted employee workstations for technical issues like hardware replacements, account permissions, and network testing.
- Providing on-call classroom AV support including projectors, microphones, and displays.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science - Cyber and Network Security
ECPI University
Glen Allen, VA01.2020
Skills
- Hardware Installation and Maintenance
- Software Installation and Troubleshooting
- Network Security
- Cloud Security
- Implementing Firewalls
- Scripting (PowerShell, Bash)
- VMWare
- Cisco Packet Tracer
- Azure
- Windows Endpoint Protection
- Intune
- Varonis
- Mimecast
- Sophos Anti-Virus
- Cisco Umbrella
- Knowbe4
- NetBackup and IDPA
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Mobile Device Security
- Disaster Recovery Strategies
- Security Information and Event Management
Certification
- CompTIA SEC+ SY0-601
- Lenovo Technician
- JAMF Certified
Timeline
Information Security Engineer
The City of Charlottesville
03.2022 - Current
Information Technology Specialist
The University of Virginia
08.2021 - 03.2022
Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science - Cyber and Network Security
ECPI University
- CompTIA SEC+ SY0-601
- Lenovo Technician
- JAMF Certified
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