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Benjamin Bradley
Cloud Security Engineer at Discover Financial Services
Chicago, IL, United States
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Education:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
Illinois State University
2014 : 2017
Associate of Science (A.S.)
McHenry County College
2012 : 2014
Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
Illinois State University
2014 : 2017
Associate of Science (A.S.)
McHenry County College
2012 : 2014
Experience:
-Secure operations of cloud infrastructure, platforms, and software, including the installation, maintenance, and improvement of cloud security computing environments.
-Develop new designs and security strategies across infrastructure, platform, and SasS architecture and engineering.
2022 : Present
Discover Financial Services
Cloud Security Engineer
-Contributed to building a new team through managing and adapting new processes, procedures, and tooling for Configuration Management while training new members and management.
-Performed and monitored Enterprise Policy Compliance for all managed systems.
-Enforced PCI and Industry Standard configurations and remediation for all technical systems.
-Engaged in Audit and Regulatory discussions as a SME for Policy Compliance.
2019 :
Discover Financial Services
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst - Platform Security
2019 : 2019
Discover Financial Services
Cybersecurity Analyst - Platform Security
-Analyzed vulnerabilities and risk in the environment establishing criticality and prioritization.
-Performed on-site validations of network and social engineering tests at all offices across the U.S.
-Overtook roles of large scale projects to ensure remediation of vulnerabilities.
-Weekly reported status to a management and upper management level, suggesting root cause problems and procedures to remediate.
2017 : 2019
Discover Financial Services
Vulnerability Analyst
Research of critical vulnerabilities and their associated exploits, performed open source intelligence gathering, and assisted in beta-testing an intelligence tool for risk ranking and analysis which determines the highest threats Discover’s most sensitive assets
2016 : 2016
Discover Financial Services
Vulnerability Analyst Intern
-Develop new designs and security strategies across infrastructure, platform, and SasS architecture and engineering.
2022 : Present
Discover Financial Services
Cloud Security Engineer
-Contributed to building a new team through managing and adapting new processes, procedures, and tooling for Configuration Management while training new members and management.
-Performed and monitored Enterprise Policy Compliance for all managed systems.
-Enforced PCI and Industry Standard configurations and remediation for all technical systems.
-Engaged in Audit and Regulatory discussions as a SME for Policy Compliance.
2019 :
Discover Financial Services
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst - Platform Security
2019 : 2019
Discover Financial Services
Cybersecurity Analyst - Platform Security
-Analyzed vulnerabilities and risk in the environment establishing criticality and prioritization.
-Performed on-site validations of network and social engineering tests at all offices across the U.S.
-Overtook roles of large scale projects to ensure remediation of vulnerabilities.
-Weekly reported status to a management and upper management level, suggesting root cause problems and procedures to remediate.
2017 : 2019
Discover Financial Services
Vulnerability Analyst
Research of critical vulnerabilities and their associated exploits, performed open source intelligence gathering, and assisted in beta-testing an intelligence tool for risk ranking and analysis which determines the highest threats Discover’s most sensitive assets
2016 : 2016
Discover Financial Services
Vulnerability Analyst Intern
Company:
Discover Financial Services
Years of Experience:
7
Skills
Communication, Information Security, Information Security Governance, Information Security Standards, Information Systems, Information Technology, Java, Leadership, MySQL, Perl, Programming, Teamwork, Time Management
About
Graduated Illinois State University with a degree in Information Systems Assurance and Security with a minor in Business Administration.