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Greg Adams
IT Specialist (Information Security) at United States Department of Agriculture
Metairie Terrace, LA, United States
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Experience:
• Experienced with discovering and correlating security incidents using IDS, IPS, DLP, and SIEM technologies
• Provided IT Compliance reports using asset management systems for patch management and unapproved software (i.e. Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix), Nessus)
• Performed forensic analysis using the Forensic Toolkit software and manual analysis of the Windows Registry in cases where employee workstation misuse was suspected
• Used various open source and proprietary tools to conduct in depth RAM analysis for malware and analyzing volatile evidence (i.e. Volatility and Redline)
• Involved with ongoing customization and tuning of a Data Loss Prevention system to more accurately detect threats and potential loss of agency personal identifiable information
• Developed Security Risk Analyses for customer requested IT products, suggested security products, and identified security vulnerabilities
• Discovered in-house software vulnerabilities as a result of incident response investigations
• Conducted security awareness training for users, help desk employees, and administrators
• Frequently developed and update NIST driven information security standard operating procedures, policies, and directives
• Managed POA&Ms for security related projects being implemented by administrators, Software/Hardware Waiver requests, and Acceptable Risk documentation
• Researched methods to detect previously unidentifiable unauthorized network traffic
2012 : Present
United States Department of Agriculture
IT Specialist (Information Security)
• Provided IT Compliance reports using asset management systems for patch management and unapproved software (i.e. Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix), Nessus)
• Performed forensic analysis using the Forensic Toolkit software and manual analysis of the Windows Registry in cases where employee workstation misuse was suspected
• Used various open source and proprietary tools to conduct in depth RAM analysis for malware and analyzing volatile evidence (i.e. Volatility and Redline)
• Involved with ongoing customization and tuning of a Data Loss Prevention system to more accurately detect threats and potential loss of agency personal identifiable information
• Developed Security Risk Analyses for customer requested IT products, suggested security products, and identified security vulnerabilities
• Discovered in-house software vulnerabilities as a result of incident response investigations
• Conducted security awareness training for users, help desk employees, and administrators
• Frequently developed and update NIST driven information security standard operating procedures, policies, and directives
• Managed POA&Ms for security related projects being implemented by administrators, Software/Hardware Waiver requests, and Acceptable Risk documentation
• Researched methods to detect previously unidentifiable unauthorized network traffic
2012 : Present
United States Department of Agriculture
IT Specialist (Information Security)
Company:
United States Department of Agriculture
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