SAMSON DADA
Carenet Healthcare
San Antonio,TX
7
Years of experience
2
Certification
Results-driven Cybersecurity analyst with 3+ experience in email security, vulnerability management and healthcare compliance. Proven track record of reducing phishing click rates by 90%, remediating 95% critical vulnerability within SLA and supporting HITRUST CSF certification. Adept at M365 Defender, Tenable and LogRhythm SIEM. Seeking to strengthen security posture in a compliance-driven environment.
Work History
Cybersecurity Analyst
3 Years 2 Months- Manage end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle with Tenable VM scanning 2000+ assets prioritized and drove remediation of 5000+ vulnerabilities achieving 90% SLA compliance for Critical and High.
- Coordinated with IT team to remediate vulnerabilities from Tenable scans-maintained 90%+ patch compliance.
- Built automated playbook in FortiEDR an endpoint solution to alert and report potential malware in real time allowing for immediate automated response.
- Collected, validated and mapped technical 50+ for SOC 2 & HITRUST items.
- Monitor SIEM tool (LogRhythm) investigating alert 100+ security events with < 5% false positive escalation rate.
- Hardened Windows Server and Linux endpoints using CIS template verified via automated compliance scan to satisfy HITRUST and SOC 2 audits.
- Led 20+ security incidents over 3 years decreasing mean time to respond from 8 hours to 1.4 hours playbook for phishing malware and compromised account workflows.
- Conducted quarterly phishing simulation via KnowBE4 and delivered security awareness training to 5000 staffs.
- Lead email security operations for 5000+ users, investigated 200 suspicious emails report weekly utilizing Avanan to monitor, analyze, and respond to email-based threats, reducing phishing delivery by 95 %
- Monitored and investigated security alerts from a LogRhythm SIEM platform, reducing critical false positives by 90%.
- Experience using Jira and ServiceNow ticketing system in documenting and addressing findings.
Desktop Support Specialist
2 Years 11 Months- Conduct numerous installations of company's secure product on customers machines including driver installation on network printers.
- Installed software configured and tested user's device analyzed functionality of peripheral appendages.
- Troubleshot hardware and software issues and identified solutions to resolve problems quickly.
- Performed system upgrades including operating system installs, application installations, and patching.
- Fully supports a wide range of IT products such as MS office suite software, personal productivity software, and network access and system utilities.
- MDM installation and configuration on mobile devices.
- Assisted users with Microsoft 365 deployment and set up on devices.
- Training newly hired users on assigned workstations before deployment.
- Creating and handling tickets requests in a timely and professional manner using ServiceNow ticketing system.
- Ensuring all workstations have an updated antivirus.
- Experience with installation and configuration of RSA secure id on mobile phones and devices.
- Experience with configuring and troubleshooting Virtual Private Network (VPN) remote access problems.
Education
BSc - Computer Science
Skills
Endpoint Security
Cloud Security
Vulnerability Management
Network Security
Incident Response
Email Security
Log Analysis
Access Control
Cryptography
Certification
- CompTIA Security +
- CompTIA CySA +
Timeline
Cybersecurity Analyst
Carenet Healthcare
04.2023 - 06.2026Read More
Desktop Support Specialist
Sasol North America
09.2019 - 08.2022Read More
University of Ilorin
BSc from Computer Science
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