- Ran proactive threat hunts across endpoint and network telemetry in Sentinel and Defender for Endpoint.
- Authored KQL against DeviceNetworkEvents and DeviceProcessEvents — traced a living-off-the-land PowerShell port scan through 100+ failed internal connections.
- Mapped process execution and network telemetry to MITRE ATT&CK to support root-cause analysis.
- Audited and remediated Windows systems against DISA STIG controls, implementing 10+ hardening tasks across account policy, credential settings, and administrative restrictions.
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Cybersecurity Engineer (Intern)
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Ran proactive threat hunts across endpoint and network telemetry using Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, authoring KQL queries against the DeviceNetworkEvents and DeviceProcessEvents tables to isolate suspicious activity — including a living-off-the-land PowerShell port scan traced through 100+ failed internal connection attempts. Mapped process execution and network telemetry to MITRE ATT&CK techniques to support root-cause analysis, and audited and remediated Windows systems against DISA STIG controls, implementing 10+ hardening tasks across account policy, credential settings, and administrative restrictions.
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B.S. in Computer Science
Core CS foundations: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and databases.
M.S. in Cybersecurity & Information Assurance
Advanced coursework in threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering, building directly on hands-on SOC work with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, and MITRE ATT&CK.
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DFIR Case Study: Azure Control-Plane Domain Compromise
Reconstructed a simulated 17-hour domain compromise across three hosts using 28 documented KQL queries against Sentinel and Defender XDR. Traced an Azure Run Command privilege-escalation bypass and an AdminSDHolder ACL backdoor, then authored and validated new detection rules — correcting a KQL tokenization defect that had hidden a second attacker session.
Azure Brute-Force Threat Hunt
Investigated an Azure VM misconfigured with a public IP exposing internal infrastructure services to the internet. Built a five-stage KQL hunt ranking attacking source IPs by failed-logon volume and cross-referencing failed against successful authentication, confirming zero unauthorized access despite sustained credential guessing.
Windows STIG Hardening Automation
Wrote paired PowerShell remediation and rollback scripts for ten DISA STIG controls covering password history, minimum password age, and lock-screen policy, including deliberate misconfiguration scripts to verify audit tooling detects drift. Used Tenable Nessus to scan hosts before and after remediation to confirm findings closed.
Internal Threat Hunt: Network Slowdown Traced to LotL Port Scan
Traced a network performance complaint to a PowerShell port scanner run twice against two internal hosts in a self-staged MDE lab. The obvious query — ranking hosts by total failed connections — missed the responsible host entirely; attributing failures to process and scoring ports-per-host surfaced it by two orders of magnitude. Recovered the exact command line, mapped the activity to MITRE ATT&CK (T1059.001, T1046), and shipped a ports-per-host detection rule with segmentation and PowerShell-constraint recommendations.
Vulnerability Management Lab: Tenable Scan-to-Remediation Cycle
Ran authenticated Tenable Nessus scans against an intentionally unhardened Windows Server VM in Azure to establish a vulnerability baseline, then prioritized findings by CVSS and business impact. Remediated six categories of exposure — missing OS updates, an over-privileged local Guest account, outdated third-party software, disabled SMB signing, missing RDP Network Level Authentication, and legacy LM/NTLMv1 authentication — verifying each fix with a post-remediation delta scan. Reduced active vulnerabilities from 24 to 4, an 83% reduction.