Darius Iakabos

Acting as:

- SOC analyst (L2 & L3):

• Involved in the investigation & response of various security incidents
• Creating, maintaining and fine-tuning detection rules
• Playbook creation for various security scenarios
• Conducted Security Awareness trainings for employees

- SME for Arcanna.AI:

• Testing and improving the product (Arcanna.ai) to better fit the workflow of security analysts
• Presented Product Demos to potential customers
• Created Lab environment for purple teaming: Simulating attacks based on MITRE ATT&CK framework with tools such as Atomic Red Team
• Tasked with showing to customers, in live demos, complete security workflows between various security tools (SIEM,EDR, SOAR) and Arcanna.ai

Incident Handling and Response:

• Monitoring and triaging alerts, event reporting, log correlation to identify the breach, find affected assets and work to remediate the threat
• Fine-tuning of detection rules based on customer feedback and risk analysis
• Assisted technical lead with playbook/knowledgebase creation for various threat scenarios

Devops:

• Helped with configuring ServiceNow Security Operations module
• Implemented and configured infrastructure for Phishing Assessments (Postfix + GoPhish)

Risk assessment:

• Conducted both internal and external Phishing assessments

Threat intelligence:

• Writing weekly summary on the latest TTPs and cyber incidents (News, Twitter, etc...)
• Providing threat advisory on the latest vulnerabilities potentially affecting client products

• Active Directory user management
• VDI and VPN user management/troubleshooting
• Remote assistance using Team-viewer and Remote Desktop Connection
• Knowledge base contributions
• Ticket management and performance reporting in Service-Now
• O365 support

Freelance work as an affiliate marketing publisher for various affiliate networks using own infrastructure.

Activities and responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of 100+ Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on over 20 Domains for Email Services
• Designing email marketing campaigns
• Analysis of campaign analytics
• Improving the overall strategy for better results
• Ensuring email marketing best practice and CAN-SPAM compliance

Business Associate in a small ESP (Email Service Provider)

Activities and responsibilities included:

• Installing and managing physical servers from our Datacenter (70+)
• Installing and managing virtual machines (Linux - CentOS 6)
• Setting up and managing DNS records (A records, SPF, MX, DKIM, DMARC)
• Assisting with virtualization using SolusVM (KVM, OpenVZ)
• Team management and SLA achievement