Peter Ford
Summary
Following my education at Brighton University, I graduated with an honors degree in War and Conflict (2:1). Post university, I have obtained CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, and EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). I have work experience in three MSSP SOC environments; two using the Azure platform, specifically with Azure Sentinel, and the other being with ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana).
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
SOC Analyst
Abtis Gmbh
03.2023 - Current
- Investigated and resolved incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive information.
- Worked with other teams to enforce security of applications and systems.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Implemented security measures to reduce threats and damage related to cyber attacks.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
- Monitored and managed customer environments to reduce the attack surface and prevent infiltration.
- Assess received customer mail to determine threats.
SOC Analyst
DEFENSE.COM/BULLETPROOF
09.2021 - 11.2022
- Monitoring of customer environments for potential malicious activity.
- Raise any suspected malicious activity to customers.
- Engage with customers to assess threats and false positives.
- Advise customers on best security practices and remediations.
- Create monthly security reports for customers.
- Cover 24/7 customer support phone line.
- Manual parsing of logs
- Conducting deep dive investigations of customer environments when suspicious activity was detected.
- Creating queries, visualizations and alerts for customer environments.
- My key achievements during my employment were:
- Detecting a phishing campaign within a customer environment.
- Detecting a case of leaked credentials being used within a customer environment.
- Build an ELK Stack from scratch.
Junior SOC Analyst
Tiberium
07.2020 - 10.2020
- Creating reports from Qualys Vulnerability Scans
- Liaising with customers regarding threats to their network and how to remedy these threats
- Providing support for my co-workers and managers.
- On a larger scale I provided second line desktop support when required
- Set up Qualys Vulnerability scans
- Used Microsoft Azure Sentinel to monitor company networks to make sure no malicious activity was occurring.
- My key achievements during my employment were:
- Onboarded a new customer into Azure lighthouse using ARM template.
- As a junior assisted in the Setup of Windows virtual desktop (WVD), Azure active directory domain services (AD DS), Azure firewall, Azure bastion.
Education
CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker -
Online (Remote)
BA Honours 2:1 War and Conflict -
University of Brighton
06.2022
Skills
- Azure Sentinel
- Kusto Query Language
- ElasticSearch
- Logstash
- Kibana Query Language (KQL)
- Qualys
- Recorded Future
- Microsoft 365 Office
- Windows Virtual Desktop
- Kibana
- Microsoft Defender
- Deep Instinct
Timeline
SOC Analyst
Abtis Gmbh
03.2023 - Current
SOC Analyst
DEFENSE.COM/BULLETPROOF
09.2021 - 11.2022
Junior SOC Analyst
Tiberium
07.2020 - 10.2020
CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker -
Online (Remote)
BA Honours 2:1 War and Conflict -
University of Brighton
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