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Peter Rapisarda, MBA, CISSP
Enterprise IT Security and Infrastructure Professional
New York, NY, United States
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Experience:
2023 : Present
FlexTrade
Senior Information Security Engineer
Lead Security Architect building and transforming the businesses cyber security program.
- Design and drive security projects and initiatives, to ensure ongoing compliance with approved policies and regulatory requirements.
- Assist in the architecture, implementation, management, and enhancement of technical security capabilities – IPS/IDS, DLP, IAM, SIEM, etc.
- Monitor IDS alerts, suspicious emails, network logs, and system audit logs for anomalous activities.
- Analyze internal and external threats/vulnerabilities and coordinate appropriate remediation efforts with other internal stakeholders.
- Provide security incidents and response support, as needed.
- Develop and implement SIEM use cases, to support the monitoring of Teachers’ network infrastructure, and handle escalations with managed service providers
- Prepare and maintain up to date documentation details, including standard operating procedures, of deployed technical solutions.
- Design configure and optimize proofpoint email security including but not limited to rearchitecting email firewall rules, fraud defense (DMARC), TAP/TRAP.
- Design and deploy Delinea Privileged access management, and keeper security enabling features like password rotation, check-in/out of credentials, and session recording. Re-engineered PAM strategy.
- Re-designed and architected Rapid7 Vulnerability scans and vulnerability management
- Review and redesign Active Directory rights and delegations fixing broken AD delegated access and OU structure.
- Review and redesigned Fortinet firewall policies and network architecture.
- Designed and deployed VMware Workspace one MDM solution where no prior solution existed enable secure access of enterprise applications on mobile devices.
2022 : 2023
Teachers Federal Credit Union
Senior Information Security Architect
Manager for the Network systems team. Responsible for overseeing staff, performance reviews, budget planning, and technology roadmap. Provide hands-on technical leadership role for all IT Infrastructure and Operations aspects of the business. This includes all aspects of on premises and cloud technologies, security, BC/DR, NCUA compliance, and network and server infrastructure.
- Consolidated mixed Hyper-V/VMware environment in single HA VMware cluster with vMotion and failover capability.
- Deployed VMware site recovery to replicated environment to “hot site” for DR capability
- Retired legacy HQ network segment and consolidated and retired branch servers to reduce cost and simplify the environment.
- Leveraged M365 SharePoint and power apps to automate portions of onboarding and improve request tracking.
- Deployed cloud-based monitoring solution (logic monitor) and developed enterprise dashboards and metrics and fine-tuned critical service alerting.
- Deployed Cloud based Virtual Desktop solution (Azure Virtual Desktop) to enable “hot seating” requirement for the business.
- Configured and tested routing from all branches for “Fiserv XP2 Hot-site” for disaster recovery.
- Deployed new patch management solution and achieved 99.9% patch compliance rate.
- Deployed various security improvements included Web Filter Virus scanning, SSL inspection, NAC enforcement, SIEM logging for critical services, etc.
- Directed and Mentored staff and established and tracked weekly and quarterly Objectives and Key Results to ensure delivery of tangible business outcomes.
- Deployed Privileged Access Management Solution (PAM, Delinea SecretServer Cloud).
- Deployed AD FS for SSO solution and later migrated to Okta for better application compatibility and automated workflows.
- Leveraged SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) to create custom patch management reports.
2022 : 2022
Island Federal
Manager, Network Systems & Security
Senior Technical lead for all IT Infrastructure and Network systems including WAN/LAN, SQL server, IIS Web applications, helpdesk ticketing system, BC/DR, Asset Management, the entire security stack including NAC, firewalls, endpoint protection, etc., and all other relevant operations and infrastructure functions. Manage, coach and mentor junior staff.
2020 : 2022
Island Federal
Senior Systems & Security Administrator
Manager of all IT Operations and Infrastructure and Security for Topaz Lighting Corporation. Responsible for teaching and mentoring a team of Network and Systems Administrators. Hands on architecture and maintenance of primarily Windows Servers, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and Meraki Network equipment. Additional responsibilities include all aspects of security and remote access including, Endpoint Protection, VPN and Citrix, WAN connectivity over a geographically distributed network, and support of application and development teams on Microsoft IIS and SQL server platforms. Endpoint protection including Sophos AV, and mail security with Barracuda mail filter.
2020 : 2020
Topaz Lighting
Manager, IT Infrastructure & Security
FlexTrade
Senior Information Security Engineer
Lead Security Architect building and transforming the businesses cyber security program.
- Design and drive security projects and initiatives, to ensure ongoing compliance with approved policies and regulatory requirements.
- Assist in the architecture, implementation, management, and enhancement of technical security capabilities – IPS/IDS, DLP, IAM, SIEM, etc.
- Monitor IDS alerts, suspicious emails, network logs, and system audit logs for anomalous activities.
- Analyze internal and external threats/vulnerabilities and coordinate appropriate remediation efforts with other internal stakeholders.
- Provide security incidents and response support, as needed.
- Develop and implement SIEM use cases, to support the monitoring of Teachers’ network infrastructure, and handle escalations with managed service providers
- Prepare and maintain up to date documentation details, including standard operating procedures, of deployed technical solutions.
- Design configure and optimize proofpoint email security including but not limited to rearchitecting email firewall rules, fraud defense (DMARC), TAP/TRAP.
- Design and deploy Delinea Privileged access management, and keeper security enabling features like password rotation, check-in/out of credentials, and session recording. Re-engineered PAM strategy.
- Re-designed and architected Rapid7 Vulnerability scans and vulnerability management
- Review and redesign Active Directory rights and delegations fixing broken AD delegated access and OU structure.
- Review and redesigned Fortinet firewall policies and network architecture.
- Designed and deployed VMware Workspace one MDM solution where no prior solution existed enable secure access of enterprise applications on mobile devices.
2022 : 2023
Teachers Federal Credit Union
Senior Information Security Architect
Manager for the Network systems team. Responsible for overseeing staff, performance reviews, budget planning, and technology roadmap. Provide hands-on technical leadership role for all IT Infrastructure and Operations aspects of the business. This includes all aspects of on premises and cloud technologies, security, BC/DR, NCUA compliance, and network and server infrastructure.
- Consolidated mixed Hyper-V/VMware environment in single HA VMware cluster with vMotion and failover capability.
- Deployed VMware site recovery to replicated environment to “hot site” for DR capability
- Retired legacy HQ network segment and consolidated and retired branch servers to reduce cost and simplify the environment.
- Leveraged M365 SharePoint and power apps to automate portions of onboarding and improve request tracking.
- Deployed cloud-based monitoring solution (logic monitor) and developed enterprise dashboards and metrics and fine-tuned critical service alerting.
- Deployed Cloud based Virtual Desktop solution (Azure Virtual Desktop) to enable “hot seating” requirement for the business.
- Configured and tested routing from all branches for “Fiserv XP2 Hot-site” for disaster recovery.
- Deployed new patch management solution and achieved 99.9% patch compliance rate.
- Deployed various security improvements included Web Filter Virus scanning, SSL inspection, NAC enforcement, SIEM logging for critical services, etc.
- Directed and Mentored staff and established and tracked weekly and quarterly Objectives and Key Results to ensure delivery of tangible business outcomes.
- Deployed Privileged Access Management Solution (PAM, Delinea SecretServer Cloud).
- Deployed AD FS for SSO solution and later migrated to Okta for better application compatibility and automated workflows.
- Leveraged SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) to create custom patch management reports.
2022 : 2022
Island Federal
Manager, Network Systems & Security
Senior Technical lead for all IT Infrastructure and Network systems including WAN/LAN, SQL server, IIS Web applications, helpdesk ticketing system, BC/DR, Asset Management, the entire security stack including NAC, firewalls, endpoint protection, etc., and all other relevant operations and infrastructure functions. Manage, coach and mentor junior staff.
2020 : 2022
Island Federal
Senior Systems & Security Administrator
Manager of all IT Operations and Infrastructure and Security for Topaz Lighting Corporation. Responsible for teaching and mentoring a team of Network and Systems Administrators. Hands on architecture and maintenance of primarily Windows Servers, VMware, Microsoft Azure, and Meraki Network equipment. Additional responsibilities include all aspects of security and remote access including, Endpoint Protection, VPN and Citrix, WAN connectivity over a geographically distributed network, and support of application and development teams on Microsoft IIS and SQL server platforms. Endpoint protection including Sophos AV, and mail security with Barracuda mail filter.
2020 : 2020
Topaz Lighting
Manager, IT Infrastructure & Security
Company:
FlexTrade
About
Hands on Enterprise IT Security & Infrastructure professional with over 10 years of experience in high security and high compliance environments including National Defense and Financial Sectors. Expert knowledge in design, deployment, upgrade, optimization and security of servers and related systems. Demonstrated ability to manage all aspects of IT Infrastructure including products such as Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange/Microsoft 365, Microsoft SQL server, and VMWare as well as various networking infrastructure devices including multiple brands of switches, routers, and firewalls, and WLAN infrastructure components for both on-premises and cloud deployed solutions. Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and work productively as a team leader and as part of a team. Key certifications across the entire technology stack including Microsoft, and Cisco.
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