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Tehina Otare
Information Security Analyst at Vanguard
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Experience:
2020 : Present
Vanguard
Information Security Analyst
• Classes taught are Introduction to Information Systems and Human-Centered Design Process & Methods
• Graded and provided necessary feedback to over 70+ students per quarter
• Collaborated with teachers on lesson preparation, by getting materials ready and setting up equipment
• Provided support to lead professors during class schedule
• Consulted with students during office hours
• Worked with lead professors to recognize issues students are facing and recommend solutions
2020 : 2020
Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics
Teaching Assistant
• Executed daily CSIRT tasks such as incident monitoring, root-cause analysis, and email security using latest security tools and softwares
• Analyzed vulnerabilities found from internal and external assessments
• Identified and reviewed IT Security procedures and efforts to standardize security practices across multiple IT areas
• Triaged clients’ risk assessment questionnaires, to give insight into Dechert’s cybersecurity environment and policies
• Supported in project consultation, ensuring security posture was maintained during life cycle of project
• Collaborated in risk assessments using Dechert Risk-IT framework to identify risk areas
• Applied appropriate remediation in collaboration with process owners
• Responded to external request from practice groups and clients regarding information security control
2018 : 2019
Dechert LLP
IT Security Intern
• Maintained and updated active directory security and distribution groups
• Evaluated and researched potential password strengthening tools for better security hygiene
• Updated firmware for BIOS and Intel MEC for 12 desktop and laptop models
• Created documentation for identifying phishing attempt by email header
• Reviewed and followed up on reports generated by SIEM applications
2017 : 2018
Health Partners Plans
Privacy & Security Intern
• Added 220+ new organizations to research analytics tool for institutional benchmarking
• Unified hundreds of thousands of addresses to these organization records
• Determined variants associated with an organization through methodical research
• Reviewed, updated and added new organizations using proprietary software and ticketing system
• Used Python to normalize 75,000+ conference title proceedings
• Used Excel to evaluate document types and sections in 18 research journals for preciseness
2016 : 2017
Clarivate
Unification Specialist
Vanguard
Information Security Analyst
• Classes taught are Introduction to Information Systems and Human-Centered Design Process & Methods
• Graded and provided necessary feedback to over 70+ students per quarter
• Collaborated with teachers on lesson preparation, by getting materials ready and setting up equipment
• Provided support to lead professors during class schedule
• Consulted with students during office hours
• Worked with lead professors to recognize issues students are facing and recommend solutions
2020 : 2020
Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics
Teaching Assistant
• Executed daily CSIRT tasks such as incident monitoring, root-cause analysis, and email security using latest security tools and softwares
• Analyzed vulnerabilities found from internal and external assessments
• Identified and reviewed IT Security procedures and efforts to standardize security practices across multiple IT areas
• Triaged clients’ risk assessment questionnaires, to give insight into Dechert’s cybersecurity environment and policies
• Supported in project consultation, ensuring security posture was maintained during life cycle of project
• Collaborated in risk assessments using Dechert Risk-IT framework to identify risk areas
• Applied appropriate remediation in collaboration with process owners
• Responded to external request from practice groups and clients regarding information security control
2018 : 2019
Dechert LLP
IT Security Intern
• Maintained and updated active directory security and distribution groups
• Evaluated and researched potential password strengthening tools for better security hygiene
• Updated firmware for BIOS and Intel MEC for 12 desktop and laptop models
• Created documentation for identifying phishing attempt by email header
• Reviewed and followed up on reports generated by SIEM applications
2017 : 2018
Health Partners Plans
Privacy & Security Intern
• Added 220+ new organizations to research analytics tool for institutional benchmarking
• Unified hundreds of thousands of addresses to these organization records
• Determined variants associated with an organization through methodical research
• Reviewed, updated and added new organizations using proprietary software and ticketing system
• Used Python to normalize 75,000+ conference title proceedings
• Used Excel to evaluate document types and sections in 18 research journals for preciseness
2016 : 2017
Clarivate
Unification Specialist
Company:
Vanguard
Spoken Language:
English
About
I am a young cybersecurity professional looking to further my learning in all things InfoSec! I am curious by nature and will always try to stay positive. I have obtained the Security+ certification and the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.