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Christopher G.
Information Security Professional experienced in security engineering, incident response, security alert triage, threat hunting, and security content development.
Orlando, FL, United States
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Experience:
Monitor, triage, and remediate security incidents for a campus of 70k students and 12k faculty and staff, acting in a SOC analyst and incident responder role.
Research and implement new security detection logic within Micro Focus ArcSight and Microsoft Defender platforms after doing threat intelligence research and reviewing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Ingest, triage, and respond to Indicators of Compromise (IoC) provided by ISACs, vendor, and public threat feeds.
Maintain and utilize an EDR/XDR solution based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Identity that supports over 15k endpoints.
Built and maintain a SIEM solution using Micro Focus ArcSight for a network pushing 40K EPS.
Built and maintain a Cisco Umbrella deployment to filter malicious traffic at the DNS level for the campus.
2019 : Present
University of Central Florida
Information Security Professional III
Managed a team that researched, implemented, operated, and secured telecommunication servers and systems that supported a campus of over 68k students and 13k faculty and staff.
Researched, designed, implemented, and maintained a SIEM solution using Micro Focus ArcSight for a network pushing 20K EPS.
Designed, built, and maintained a Windows Event Collector environment to support event ingestion into the ArcSight platform for the UCF campus.
Built, implemented, and maintained a network monitoring system using PRTG Network Monitor for a network consisting of over 1200 Cisco and Extreme network devices.
Designed, built, and maintained an IP Address Management system using EfficientIP SOLIDserver for a network of 150K IP addresses which replaced an in house developed application.
Designed, build, and maintained a netflow analytics system using Plixer Scrutinizer to support a network of over 1200 Cisco and Extreme network devices.
Designed, built, and maintained a physical key management system using Traka in support of several hundred staff members.
Maintained an enterprise password management system using Thycotic Secret Server in support of over 200 IT staff.
Maintained a Microsoft DHCP environment that supported the UCF campus.
Maintained several custom in-house developed applications that supported DHCP multitenancy, housing network registration, IP address management.
Maintained an electronic fax environment using Esker Fax supporting 100 individual fax lines.
2014 : 2019
University of Central Florida
Enterprise Infrastructure Manager
Planned and implemented a vulnerability management lifecycle for 60 servers and 124 custom web systems using Nessus and Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.
Designed, built, and maintained two separate VMware vSphere datacenter environments using Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerVault storage, and EqualLogic SANS.
Migrated a physical server environment to a virtualized environment based on VMware vSphere.
Implemented, managed, and maintained the configuration of over 400 hosts using Microsoft Group Policy, WSUS, and custom scripts.
Planned and implemented monitoring and troubleshooting systems using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and PRTG Network Monitor.
Designed, built, and supported datacenter system backup and recovery utilizing Symantec Backup Exec and Unitrends solutions.
Implemented disaster recovery policies and procedures, including quarterly testing.
Designed, implemented, and maintained a Microsoft SharePoint farm and intranet site that hosted business contracts, grants, and documentation.
Created and maintained systems documentation used by all IT staff including as-builts, logical infrastructure diagrams, standards, and work instructions.
Configured, and deployed laptops in compliance with NISPOM : Chapter 8 specifications (DoD Secret).
2008 : 2014
University of Central Florida
Systems Administrator
Maintained and secured a 200-workstation environment running Windows XP/7, OSX, and Ubuntu.
Designed and implemented an end-user anti-virus system with Symantec Endpoint, centralizing client rollout, virus updates, and threat reporting
2006 : 2008
University of Central Florida
End User Support Specialist
Customer hardware/software issue diagnoses and repair. Computer system backup and malware cleanup. Computer system preparation and upgrades.
2001 : 2006
Best Buy
Geek Squad Agent
Research and implement new security detection logic within Micro Focus ArcSight and Microsoft Defender platforms after doing threat intelligence research and reviewing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Ingest, triage, and respond to Indicators of Compromise (IoC) provided by ISACs, vendor, and public threat feeds.
Maintain and utilize an EDR/XDR solution based on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Identity that supports over 15k endpoints.
Built and maintain a SIEM solution using Micro Focus ArcSight for a network pushing 40K EPS.
Built and maintain a Cisco Umbrella deployment to filter malicious traffic at the DNS level for the campus.
2019 : Present
University of Central Florida
Information Security Professional III
Managed a team that researched, implemented, operated, and secured telecommunication servers and systems that supported a campus of over 68k students and 13k faculty and staff.
Researched, designed, implemented, and maintained a SIEM solution using Micro Focus ArcSight for a network pushing 20K EPS.
Designed, built, and maintained a Windows Event Collector environment to support event ingestion into the ArcSight platform for the UCF campus.
Built, implemented, and maintained a network monitoring system using PRTG Network Monitor for a network consisting of over 1200 Cisco and Extreme network devices.
Designed, built, and maintained an IP Address Management system using EfficientIP SOLIDserver for a network of 150K IP addresses which replaced an in house developed application.
Designed, build, and maintained a netflow analytics system using Plixer Scrutinizer to support a network of over 1200 Cisco and Extreme network devices.
Designed, built, and maintained a physical key management system using Traka in support of several hundred staff members.
Maintained an enterprise password management system using Thycotic Secret Server in support of over 200 IT staff.
Maintained a Microsoft DHCP environment that supported the UCF campus.
Maintained several custom in-house developed applications that supported DHCP multitenancy, housing network registration, IP address management.
Maintained an electronic fax environment using Esker Fax supporting 100 individual fax lines.
2014 : 2019
University of Central Florida
Enterprise Infrastructure Manager
Planned and implemented a vulnerability management lifecycle for 60 servers and 124 custom web systems using Nessus and Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.
Designed, built, and maintained two separate VMware vSphere datacenter environments using Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerVault storage, and EqualLogic SANS.
Migrated a physical server environment to a virtualized environment based on VMware vSphere.
Implemented, managed, and maintained the configuration of over 400 hosts using Microsoft Group Policy, WSUS, and custom scripts.
Planned and implemented monitoring and troubleshooting systems using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and PRTG Network Monitor.
Designed, built, and supported datacenter system backup and recovery utilizing Symantec Backup Exec and Unitrends solutions.
Implemented disaster recovery policies and procedures, including quarterly testing.
Designed, implemented, and maintained a Microsoft SharePoint farm and intranet site that hosted business contracts, grants, and documentation.
Created and maintained systems documentation used by all IT staff including as-builts, logical infrastructure diagrams, standards, and work instructions.
Configured, and deployed laptops in compliance with NISPOM : Chapter 8 specifications (DoD Secret).
2008 : 2014
University of Central Florida
Systems Administrator
Maintained and secured a 200-workstation environment running Windows XP/7, OSX, and Ubuntu.
Designed and implemented an end-user anti-virus system with Symantec Endpoint, centralizing client rollout, virus updates, and threat reporting
2006 : 2008
University of Central Florida
End User Support Specialist
Customer hardware/software issue diagnoses and repair. Computer system backup and malware cleanup. Computer system preparation and upgrades.
2001 : 2006
Best Buy
Geek Squad Agent
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University of Central Florida
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