Sean Kalinich
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Richey May
Principal Senior Cybersecurity Architect
2011 :
DecryptedTech.com
Owner/ Editor-in-Chief
• Responsible for all technical aspects of the Threat and Vulnerability Management/Remediation (TVMR) practice
• Provided both technical and consulting leadership for TVMR team members
• Worked closely with Optiv sales team to ensure sales enablement
• Built out enablement documentation
• Wrote technical and non-technical blogs
• Assisted the Practice Director in maintaining documentation for all service lines
• Provided thought leadership to the TVMR team
2021 : 2021
Optiv
Optiv Threat and Vulnerability Management/Remediation Principal Consultant
• Consulted with Optiv clients on their Vulnerability Management programs to address any gaps.
• Assisted clients in identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities in their environment.
• Designed and implemented a system to scoring risk based on environmental context and threat intelligence.
• Provided technical oversight to other team members
• Consulted with Optiv Sales team to identify the correct service offerings
• Worked directly with the Practice Director on future plans and service offerings
• Responsible for writing reports and presentations for deliver to clients
• Hired as initial consultant to build out service offering
• Worked with Solutions Architects and Senior Managers to develop and validate methodology
2019 : 2021
Optiv
Optiv Threat and Vulnerability Management/Remediation Senior Consultant II
BlackBerry Cylance – Consulting Supervisor ThreatZERO
• Assist clients in installation, configuration and tuning of CylancePROTECT and CylanceOPTICS
• Manage multiple clients through weekly progress calls and reports generated based on their environment
• Co-Authored Best practices for deploying and tuning CylanceOPTICS as part of a ThreatZERO engagement
• Wrote multiple custom rules for CylaneOPTICS using standard JSON to assist clients in detecting potential threats in their environment
• Assist clients in integrating their Cylance environment into the SIEM
• Advise on security best practices and environmental health with clients during engagements
• Authored FAQ document for CylanceOPTICS to be used during ThreatZERO Engagements
• Worked as part of the CylanceOPTICS Tiger Team to review and rewrite all existing Optics Rules
• Reviewed Threat Intelligence feeds and converted them into CylanceOPTICS rules
• Worked with internal IR team during IR engagements as an SME for different systems
• Developed Splunk App to automate safe listing a specific type of PE threat as part of a custom integration project
• Deliver Webinars, Trainings and Talks on various product and security related topics
2017 : 2019
Cylance Inc.
BlackBerry Cylance – Consulting Supervisor ThreatZERO
Skills
Active Directory, Application Security, b2b, Blogging, business development, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Communication, Cyber-security, Cyber Threat Hunting (CTH), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), CylanceProtect, Data Privacy, digital marketing, Endpoint Security, Engineering Management, Firewalls, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Security, Information Security Management, Information Technology, Interpersonal Skills, ISO 27001, IT Management, IT Risk Management, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, MS365, MS365 Priva, MySQL, NIST, Product Management, Remote Team Management, Securing Work From Home, Security, Security Consulting, Security Controls, Security Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Operations, Sentinelone, Servers, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Tenable IO, Vulnerability Assessment, Windows Server, Web Development, Social Media Marketing, Computer Hardware, Social Networking, Public Relations, SEO, Editing, Microsoft Office, PHP, CSS, HTML, adobe creative suite, advertising, brand development, copywriting, content management, content development
About
I have worked as a strategic and technical security professional focused on building and support organizations through refining the security culture, identifying changes in the threat landscape, and assisting in building a secure infrastructure (including secure distributed infrastructures). II have worked with all levels of leadership to take strategic goals and ideas and turn them into tactical/technical realities I have over 30 years of experience in both infrastructure services and securing those same services across multiple business verticals and practices.
My experience leading both in-house and remote teams affords me a great view into how both types of organizations work and how to best secure and maintain them. As a past vCISO I understand that you cannot remain focused on the strategic, you must be able to visualize and understand the tactical steps needed to support that strategy, including the logistical realities of making any change.
With experience in tactical incident response to a variety of threat groups in multiple business verticals I have gained an understanding of the exposures that exist in many, of not most organizations. Combined with a focus on how threat groups think as well as how the threat landscape changes in, often repeatable, patterns I can assist any organization in revamping how they think about security.
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