Waltina LaRue

• Responsible for all Ancestry corporate on-premise and corporate cloud security; infrastructure (IT/OT), user endpoints & corporate servers, software, information, and data.
• Primary goal, the security of confidential, private, sensitive, and general customer and corporate data from unauthorized access, use, misuse, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption.
• Individually or as a team, management of a single security application or multiple applications and projects at a time, my primary task is to achieve the ultimate goal, protect data at all costs.
• Other duties include 3rd party vendor and contractor security assessment and validation, various information security projects, security policy, and standards authoring, implementation and enforcement, assessment, auditing, and reporting of different security solutions.
• Last but not least, team member support and appreciation.

• Performed risk management, remediation and mitigation, and general incident response.
• Authored IR plans, check sheets, and contingencies for IR, SOC, and NOC teams.
• Performed yearly tabletop IR exercises with group and organization.
• Performed forensic analysis on multitudes of data.
• Participated on the Crisis Preparedness team responsible for business continuity and disaster recovery procedures (BDCR), computer security incident response plan (CSIRP), access and authorization standards, encryption and cryptography standards, and physical security standards.,

Manager responsible for OPs network, security strategy, business and security implementation, various applications, BCDR, and network operations.

• Performed installation, administration, monitoring, policy configuration, reporting, and incident remediation for perimeter/DMZ FWs, switches, IT/OT, IDS/IPS, SIEM, wireless, and radius.
• Installed various security applications that covered AV, perimeter, and VPN security, network AP, and ISP protocols and solutions.
• Proficient in use of Wireshark, Nmap, tcpdump, stealth, squid and network monitoring, and flow.
• Responsible for administration of internal and external user authentication and validation for SSO, VoIP, VPN, and AD.
• Performed remediation and reconnaissance of incidents determined to be non-valid.
• Performed daily/weekly network security scans on production and engineering networks and web-based solutions.
• Management and administration of AD, exchange, FTP, SharePoint, in-house/cloud storage solutions, external websites, VoIP, and remote site setup and operations.
• Implemented and tested network security and wrote and implemented security policies and practices.
• Developed and implemented BC/DR plan that included cloud failover and offsite storage solutions.