Martin Blair
Details
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
2008 : 2012
West Bend Mutual Insurance
Senior Information Security Analyst
- Lead Incident response, containment, and remediation security engineer
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud, and Defender for Identity deployment, configuration, and management
- Microsoft Sentinel development and automation (workbooks & playbook development)
- Lead Security compliance assessments with recommendations, remediation, and documentation (CMMC, NIST, ITAR, HITRUST)
- Lead vulnerability assessments, patch management, and risk mitigation
- Azure security assessments and remediations
- Windows on premise domain security assessments and remediations fitting industry best practices and/or tied to compliance requirements
- Building out or proposing group policies and security configuration changes for clients networks (network sizes range from 10 endpoints to 5000+ endpoints)
- Azure conditional access and risk based policy development
- Developed scripts for RMM tool for deployments, vulnerability remediation, and documentation
- Developed and deployed new security tools and standards for internal, company wide use
- Lead automated documentation deployment for internal MSP use
- Lead SonicWALL NSM engineer for onboarding, deployment, and policy development for managing SonicWALL firewalls
2021 : 2023
2W Technologies, INC
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
- Vulnerability assessment, patch management, and mitigation for new emergency threats
- Established security standards based off of industry best practices for minimizing threat landscape to our clients as well as internally
- Performed security assessment and audits for clients that require specific compliant requirements
- Researched new and emerging security threats and determined client impact
- Researched new security products to potentially deploy to customers
- CISO responsibilities held concurrently with Senior Systems Engineer roles
2020 : 2021
LeadingIT
Chief Information Security Officer
- Lead Malicious incident response and security engineer
- Lead Sophos Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Engineer for responding to threats, threat hunting, deployment, and maintenance for all servers and endpoints running Sophos EDR (Central)
- Lead Security Awareness platform engineer for deploying, automating, and hosting C level meetings explaining the value of Security Awareness to Company owners
- Lead Datto Engineer : performing deployments, migrations, maintenance, manual troubleshooting via CLI over ssh, and patching to over 70+ Datto servers which protect over 220+ client production servers. Datto Certified Advanced Technician since 2015
- SQL and MySQL Database maintenance and troubleshooting
- Firewall management and maintenance (VPNs, policy enforcement, routing, and tracing)
- Level 3 MSP escalation team for handling tickets escalated from level 2
2018 : 2021
LeadingIT
Senior System Engineer
- Lead Datto Engineer : performing deployments, migrations, maintenance, manual troubleshooting via CLI over ssh, and patching to over 70+ Datto servers which protect over 220+ client production servers. Datto Certified Advanced Technician since 2015
- Lead BCDR responder to emergency disaster recoveries (File restores, Hybrid VMs, Bare Metal restores)
- Microsoft Active Directory maintenance and policy enforcement
- Microsoft Server 2008, Server 2012, and Server 2016 deployment, maintenance, and management (DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, FS)
- Fortinet Firewall management and maintenance (VPNs, policy enforcement, routing, and tracing)
- Sophos Enterprise Console maintenance and management
- Sophos Central deployment, maintenance, and management
- Built and deployed several servers from scratch for client requirements : MS SQL, MySQL, Application, Web, Files, Active Directory, and Terminal Servers
- Performed collaborative projects for migrating from local exchange servers to Office 365 environments
- Performed projects for restructuring Hyper-Vs and performed physical to virtual machine migrations
- Malicious software investigation and incident handling
- Built and configured VMware ESXi hosts
- Performed Layer 3 Network tracing on HPE switches
- Level 2 MSP escalation team for handling tickets escalated from level 1
2014 : 2018
LeadingIT
System Engineer
Skills
Active Directory, Backup & Recovery Systems, CentOS, Computer Maintenance, Computer Science, Computer Security, Customer Service, Data Recovery, Domain Controller, Domain Name System (DNS), Ethical Hacking, File Servers, Fortinet, Ghost Imaging, Hardware Diagnostics, Hyper-V, Information Technology, Intrusion Detection, IT Service Management, MySQL, Network Administration, Network Security, Penetration Testing, PHP, PXE, Scripting, Security Compliance, Software Development, Sophos, Systems Engineering, Ubuntu, Virus Removal, VMware ESX, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server, WinPE, Visual Basic, C, XML, Android Development, HTML, Norton Ghost, CompTIA A+ Certification, Domain Management, phpMyAdmin, Windows Security, Java, JavaScript, Computer Diagnostics, Software Engineering, IDS, Customer Support, Operating Systems, Database Design, Web Applications, Website Development, Antivirus, Windows Domain, VMware, vSphere, Kaseya, WordPress, ConnectWise