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Eric Nelson

Cybersecurity Analyst

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Experience

2+ years
SOC Analyst

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Education

A.sc Associate degree
B.sc Bachelors Degree

Meticulous and passionate Security Analyst with 2+ years of experience in Azure cloud infrastructure and Sentinel SIEM. Microsoft Security Operations Analyst with positive results in incident handling, vulnerability research, mitigation, and management. Executes ethical hacking and penetration tools. Detects, responds to, and resolves security incidents. Strong communication and people skills, explains advanced security and technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Optimizes systems performance, delivers security hardening practices, and upgrades technological improvements. Applies cost-effective decision-making and usability.

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Experience

SOC Analyst

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Mobile Device Management

Experienced

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Access Management

Intermediate

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Risk Mitigation

Basic

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Threat Detection

Basic

Professional Certifications

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification

Earned: 02/2024

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Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate certification

Earned: 05/2023

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CompTIA Security +

Earned: 12/2022

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Cisco CCNA

Earned: 11/2022

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AWS Cloud Practitioner

Earned: 04/2022

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CompTIA A+

Earned: 11/2021

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Project 1

Setting up Azure Sentinel

  • Used custom PowerShell script to extract metadata from Windows Event Viewer to be forwarded to third party API in order to derive geolocation data
  • Configured Log Analytics Workspace in Azure to ingest custom logs containing geographic information (latitude, longitude, state/province, and country)
  • Configured Custom Fields in Log Analytics Workspace with the intent of mapping geo data in Azure Sentinel
  • Configured Azure Sentinel (Microsoft's cloud SIEM) workbook to display global attack data (RDP brute force) on world map according to physical location and magnitude of attacks
  • Project 2

    Malware Analysis

  • Remnux virtual machine was set up to perform static malware analysis of a malicious file named Factora.doc.
  • Tools such as exiftool, rtfdump.py, rtfobj, oledump.py, and scdbg were utilized to extract the contents of the RTF file and shell code.
  • Vulnerabilities related to CVE-2018-0802 and another vulnerability referred to as CVE-2017-11882 were uncovered during the analysis.
  • A malicious software named jan2.exe would be downloaded if the file were to be executed, which was also discovered during the analysis.
  • Project 3

    Project Three

  • Installed and deployed Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance and accessed it through the Qualys Cloud Platform
  • Executed the vulnerability management lifecycle on a virtualized environment, comprising of the stages: Discovery, Prioritization, Assessment, Reporting, Remediation, and Verification.
  • Leveraged Qualys to manage vulnerability scanning and addressed identified vulnerabilities.
  • Detected deprecated software on a Windows 10 machine, remediated the vulnerabilities, verified the software was no longer vulnerable.
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