Brooklyn Mesia

Network Security Engineer with four years protecting companies against bad actors who disrupt business operations. Serves as primary safeguard against external threats. Educates colleagues on best practices and network safety protocols. Protects networked assets through both preventive and reactionary measures.

• Master of Electrical Engineering, 05/01/23, Boise State University, Boise, ID
• Certificate of Cyber Resilience
• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 05/01/21, Boise State University, Boise, ID
• Certificate of Cyber Operations

• Dragos Inc, Senior Field Ops Engineer, 07/01/23, Current, Senior Field Operations Engineer at Dragos, specializing in protecting critical infrastructure from adversarial threats. 5 years of industry experience, with expertise in controls engineering and IT cybersecurity. Proficient in networking with an excellent understanding of IP networks, OSI model, Purdue model, and ICS protocols. Lead the planning, scoping, and implementation of the Dragos Platform in diverse customer environments. Serve as the primary technical contact and Dragos Platform subject matter expert for clients. Collaborate with clients on network architecture, sensor placement, and planning activities for deploying new sensors. Coordinate and conduct on-site and remote deployments, ensuring successful implementation and customer satisfaction. Provide advanced troubleshooting and break/fix support for the Platform solution. Coordinate upgrades, patches, and other configuration changes to the Platform solution. Escalate complex issues to the engineering group and assist in resolving them. Collaborate with Dragos Intel and Threat Operations Center on investigations and projects. Create technical documentation and content to support customer education and internal knowledge sharing.
• JR Simplot, Boise, ID, Security Engineer, 04/01/20, 07/01/23, Perform investigations on broad spectrum of event types via SIEM and all applicable investigative tooling. Engage in emergency incident response, including ICS security, SIEM alerted events, phishing, and end-user suspicious behaviour. Act as subject matter expert (SME) on OT IDS Platform and coach local technicians on functionality and usability. Compile data from various sources and prepare consumable reports for all levels of technical understanding. Deploy SSL Decrypt policy for global critical industrial sites. Examine and implement secure hybrid cloud technology to secure containers and infrastructure. Create technical documentation for plant security standards and procedures, as well as other information security initiatives. Implement OT and IT security initiatives according to Essential 8, NIST CSF and CIS controls along with documentation the policy and standards with them. Successfully travelled to industrial facilities to execute security initiatives, identify facility needs, and establish strong professional relationships with local technicians/engineers as liaison between operations and corporate IT teams. Facilitated automation of IAM controls and addressed permissive access through identity access management. Developed IDS solution for 33 sites in less than one year and reported vulnerability data to C-suite management. Generated secure coding solution for diverse global teams and delivered active projects. Identified and disabled 1300 unused service accounts. Enhanced monitoring of OT traffic in manufacturing, mining, and chemical environments by co-operating with local site teams on network architecture and data collection placement. Optimised understanding of ICS environments to lead maintenance and segmentation efforts in internal ICS infrastructure (Level 0-2). Deployed secure code scanning tool for more than 15 projects in two months.

• CompTIA Security+ Certification
• CompTIA Network+ Certification
• AWS Cloud Professional