Experience

[undisclosed]

• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Director / Cyber Security Specialist

  • Jan 2023 - Present



Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Director / Cyber Security Specialist

  • Apr 2022 - Dec 2022

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Services Australia

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cyber Security Analyst

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2022

  2021: Tech Lead - Detection Multidisciplinary Team (MDT):This MDT was created by the CISO to uplift the Department’s intrusion detection capability. Here is a summary of some of my contributions to this MDT:- Assessed security controls of the Department's Linux environment and developed new intrusion detection use cases to address the findings from my assessment. My research was primarily focused on detecting adversary techniques using correlation/composition rules and ML models. - Conducted periodic Purple Team activities to test the Department's intrusion detection use cases.- Developed generic detection use cases for Cyber Hub clients.- Developed a process for onboarding Cyber Hub clients.----------------2020: Tech Lead - SIEM Enhancement Project: This project was initiated to review and document existing SIEM rules and optimise their trigger logic to reduce false positive alerts. Here is a summary of some of my contributions to this project:- Redeveloped the Department's intrusion detection use cases to make them SIEM agnostic and reusable in portfolio agencies (DSS, DVA and NDIA).- Worked with Mandiant to conduct a SIEM maturity review.- Optimised legacy SIEM uses cases to reduce false positive alerts.- Developed a SIEM Rule Life Cycle Framework.- Developed a project plan to operationalize Mitre Att&ck framework to maximise the coverage of the Department's intrusion detection capability.- Lead a team to provide data analytics support for the SIEM migration project.- Received a Significant Achievement Award from the CISO for my work ethics and contribution in the SIEM enhancement project. ----------------2019: SOC Analyst - T1 & Current Intel:- Triaged alerts and assisted the incident response lead with remediation activities.- Assessed vulnerabilities.- Wrote a script to automate the process of checking for changes in fake MyGov sites. Show less

• Graduate Data Analyst

  • Feb 2018 - Dec 2018



Australian Cyber Security Centre

• Australia
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cyber Security Analyst (secondment)

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2020



Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Dec 2017 - Feb 2018



Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Project Coordinator

  • Jun 2017 - Dec 2017



Australian Bureau of Statistics

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Coder

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2017