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Quinten Bowen

Principal Analyst, CrowdStrike
Saint Charles,MO

Summary

I am a seasoned security professional currently residing as a Principal Analyst at CrowdStrike. I'm skilled in malware analysis, red team operations, incident response, operations management, and curation of actionable intel.


In my career I have helped mentor and build a global team of elite analysts, focused on triage, incident response, and surgical remediation of malware artifacts.


Additionally, I have been fortunate to present at BSidesSTL, DECON29, and Fal.Con on malware analysis and adversary techniques and prevention.


I am now seeking a new challenge in my career. And I believe with my experience I would be a great candidate for this role.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Manager, Falcon Complete

CrowdStrike
08.2022 - 03.2024
  • Identified as an individual to manage strategic accounts
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Interviewed, trained, and built two Fire Teams across both East and West coast.
  • Lead the Forrester presentation evaluation, maintaining accountability across scenarios, coaching, and removing friction points where possible, for those presenting.
  • Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground, to ensure a healthy work culture is maintained.
  • Created and currently leading the Falcon Complete Binary Triage Team, a curated team of elite analysts designed to be an escalation point to analysts when needed for help ascertaining the threat level of a sample.
  • Created and currently leading the Falcon Complete Encounter initiative, a curated team to create and utilize a new platform for Proof of Experience demos and continued training, utilizing a stable, robust, and practical hands on learning experience, used by over 600 members of the team world wide.


Sr. Analyst

CrowdStrike
03.2020 - 08.2022
  • Performed Proof of Experience (PoE), live demonstrations of Falcon Complete operations that showcases how we respond, triage, and remediate high severity alerts, to multiple Fortune 500 companies.
  • Led teams to combat Threat Actors during vulnerability exploitation surges such as, ProxyLogon, ProxyShell, Telerik, and Log4j.
  • Led teams and managed client communications during attacks from Persistent Threat Actors.
  • As a member of Threat Response Group (TRG) on Falcon Complete, developed technical documentation outlining technical workflows, and producing customer responses, for mass client communications by the Falcon Complete Team, during times of surge events.
  • Interviewed and screened new potential candidates.
  • Trained new analysts leveraging shadowing and a hands on approach to analysis.
  • Written, and co-authored multiple thought leadership blogs, detailing malware analysis and preventative measures. (From the Front Lines)
  • Responded to client queries in various technical detail outlining best practice processes, tailored to the audience.
  • Performed surgical analysis, triage, and remediation of malware, and remediate threats such as hands-on-keyboard events. (HOK)


Security Operations Engineer

Computer Services, Inc
11.2018 - 03.2020
  • Conduct network, systems and security audits
  • Ensure PCI, GLBA and HIPAA compliance on client and internal networks
  • Regularly manage and assess internal vulnerabilities
  • Test, implement, monitor and log data leak prevention solutions (DLP)
  • Formulate and test ideas to enhance reporting procedures
  • Configure and manage Windows / Linux servers
  • Configure Cisco Firewalls
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Produce reports based on data trend analysis
  • Produce detailed data sets using proper meta field types
  • Analyze user based behavioral learning patterns
  • Incident response handling and investigation
  • Endpoint management

Systems Administrator

Mayer Networks
04.2017 - 11.2018
  • Conduct network, systems and security audits
  • Ensure PCI, GLBA and HIPAA compliance on client and internal networks
  • Plan, test and implement disaster recovery
  • Configure and maintain SonicWall, Cisco and Palo Alto networking devices
  • Implement unified threat management solutions
  • Respond to tickets timely to ensure SLA adherence
  • Configure and administer Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Hyper-V

Education

Computer Forensics

John A. Logan

Accomplishments

  • Technical Reviewer for Malware Analysis Techniques, published by Packt
  • Received the One Team One Fight reward for my contribution to the MITRE MDR evaluation
  • Creator of a malware analysis CTF tailored to beginner to intermediate analysts to practice their craft: https://cet.ctfd.io/
  • Keynote Speaker at DEFCON29 Blue Team Village (BTV) Malware Analysis Techniques
  • Keynote Speaker for multiple Fal.Con presentations on threat actor techniques and prevention
  • Lead a team of elite analysts for the Forrester evaluation
  • Created and operationalized a platform to deliver custom training scenarios of simulated threat actor activity used by 600+ analysts globally



Publications

  • Malware Analysis Techniques: Tricks for the triage of adversarial software (Packt)
  • How Falcon Complete Stops Microsoft Exchange Server Exploits (CrowdStrike)
  • Duck Hunting w/Falcon Complete Pt. 1: QakBot Malware Overview (CrowdStrike)
  • The Role of Malware Analysis in the Modern SOC (CrowdStrike)

Certification

Red Team Operator (RTO)

Timeline

Red Team Operator (RTO)

05-2023

Manager, Falcon Complete

CrowdStrike
08.2022 - 03.2024

GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)

04-2021

ELearn Security Certified Malware Analysis Professional (eCMAP)

10-2020

Sr. Analyst

CrowdStrike
03.2020 - 08.2022

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

11-2019

ELearn Security Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPT)

06-2019

Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA)

02-2019

Security Operations Engineer

Computer Services, Inc
11.2018 - 03.2020

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

05-2018

Systems Administrator

Mayer Networks
04.2017 - 11.2018

Computer Forensics

John A. Logan
Quinten BowenPrincipal Analyst, CrowdStrike