AltSchool Africa
|Security Operation Analyst
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
Currently contributes to enhancing organizational security posture by monitoring and analyzing security events, responding to incidents, and implementing proactive defense strategies.
Highlights
Monitors security alerts and events from SIEM platforms (Wazuh, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel) to detect and analyze potential threats, reducing false positives and enhancing response efficiency.
Performs initial incident response, including triage, containment, and eradication, leveraging EDR solutions like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and CrowdStrike to minimize impact.
Contributes to threat hunting initiatives by analyzing network traffic and endpoint data to identify sophisticated attack patterns and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
Applies offensive security knowledge to anticipate attacker methodologies, enhancing defensive strategies and improving detection capabilities across critical systems.
Assists in vulnerability management activities, identifying and prioritizing weaknesses to strengthen overall system resilience and reduce attack surface.