United Kingdom

Security Engineering

Joseph Ikeh

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Public Speaking

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Business intelligence

Cloud computing

Python

CircleCI

Docker

GitHub

Golang (Go)

GitLab

Jenkins

PowerBI

Selenium

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

- Strengthened relationships with external stakeholders by effectively communicating progress and updates, resulting in an increase in customer satisfaction.
- Led efforts to establish effective incident response actions, resulting in a reduction in security incidents and minimizing the impact on the business.
- Spearheaded joint effort with law enforcement leading to the arrest of 5 suspects, safeguarding company reputation and assets.
- Created manager-friendly reports on incidents/threat actors, resulting in a reduction in response time and increased client confidence.
- Provided post-incident recommendations that led to a decrease in incident frequency, saving the clients thousands of dollars annually.
- Conducted comprehensive threat-hunting activities, resulting in the detection and elimination of potential threats and reducing the overall risk of cyber attacks
- Implemented effective Incident Response processes that aligned with legal and regulatory requirements, resulting in smooth operations and zero compliance issues.
- Evaluated and recommended security tools, software, and services to enhance incident detection and response capabilities.

- Served as on-call and ready to respond personnel for security incidents 24/7, especially for organizations that require continuous monitoring.
- Maintained detailed records of Incident Response activities, including evidence collection, actions taken, and outcomes. These records are critical for post-incident analysis and reporting
- Enhanced cyber threat detection through proactive alerting and monitoring, use-case generation, and threat hunting using various SIEMs and EDRs.
- Utilized threat intel to develop predictive models, increasing malware detection and mitigating potential security breaches
- Performed alerting and monitoring using multiple SIEMs and EDRs.
- Performed triage of escalated security events that require further review and analysis to establish root cause as well as following through with eradication measures.
- Collaborated with threat intelligence analysts providing indications for predictive analysis of malicious activity.
- Identified and worked with clients towards vulnerability management, patch management, and fixing of security flaws in APIs.
- Developed and delivered security awareness and compliance training programs as well as anchoring knowledge transfer training sessions to new team members.
- Performed employee and stakeholder education about cybersecurity best practices to reduce the risk of human error that can lead to security incidents
- Generated regular reports and dashboards to communicate the organization's security posture to management and stakeholders. This includes incident reports and performance metrics.

- Enabled centralized user identity management resulting in improved security and efficiency.
- Played a key role in IAM-related incident response, investigating and resolving security incidents related to unauthorized access and identity compromises.
- Developed proactive monitoring strategies to detect and respond to IAM-related anomalies
- Created comprehensive documentation for IAM configurations, processes, and best practices to facilitate knowledge transfer within the team.
- Engaged with business stakeholders to understand their access requirements and implemented solutions that align with business goals
- Developed and maintained identity governance processes to ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies.
- Proactively identified opportunities for improvement in IAM processes and technologies, keeping abreast of the latest trends and emerging technologies in identity and access management.
- Ensured data protection and compliance by expertly managing and maintaining security tools and technologies, such as antivirus software and intrusion detection systems.
- Revamped security awareness within the organization by providing comprehensive training and education, leading to a 75% improvement in security compliance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement proactive security measures, resulting in a reduction of security risks.
- Maintained system security at all times by diligently updating with the latest security patches and updates, eliminating known vulnerabilities.

- Optimized app performance by utilizing Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving workflow.
- Boosted production efficiency by implementing automated build and deployment with Jenkins, leading to a decrease in human error.
- Streamlined AWS infrastructure deployment process with Terraform, decreasing deployment errors.
- Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.
- Increased efficiency and accuracy of penetration testing and vulnerability assessment with automated tools.
- Automated user interaction simulations using python's selenium library.
- Developed scalable and maintainable web applications using Django MVC architecture, leading to an increase in user engagement.
- Improved data fetching process by developing Python scripts, resulting in faster data retrieval and increased website efficiency.

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