Güneş Alcan
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Ankara,Turkey
Summary
Exceptional problem solving skills with determination and great reporting skills that ensures pleased customers and managers. Cybersecurity Specialist with proficiency in online security research, planning, execution, and maintenance. Skilled at training internal users on security procedures and preventive measures.
Information Security expert with experience across full information systems lifecycle. Highly skilled in Network Security and Information Security. Self-motivated and deadline-oriented with track record of on-time deliverables. Experienced Senior Cyber Security Specialist with over 5 years of experience in Industry. Highly skilled security consultant with overall cyber security understanding. Participated in top to bottom network and security design and architecture. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Driven student leveraging studies in Cyber Security seeks real-world experience as Cyber Security Expert. Offers strong interpersonal and task prioritization skills. Experienced to lead small teams. Experience in planning and monitoring business processes, assigning tasks to the right team members.
Continuous self-development in the areas covered by Cyber Security.
Personal interest in Incident Response and Threat Hunting areas and a high level of theoretical knowledge of processes and methodology, as well as direct participation in the process from time to time with the incident response team.
Personal studies on threat intelligence and security operation processes, personal studies on Mitre Framework, Open Threat Exchange platforms.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
System Engineer
Inforte Bilişim A.Ş
ÇANKAYA, ANKARA
01.2022 - Current
- As System Engineer in Inforte, responsible to participate in pre-sales stages. In this context, listen to customer needs and suggest most appropriate solutions to meet these needs. It is among my duties to manage, implement and report PoC and demo stages of proposed solutions.
- Responsibilities include providing technical advice to our existing customers and guiding them to use technology and products they use more efficiently.
- It is also among my duties to prepare and review RFP documents and verify their affordability with solutions we offer as Inforte.
- Products and technologies assigned to me in my role at Inforte are Pulse Secure VPN, Load Balancer and NAC solutions. Forescout NAC solution and Arbor Ddos solution.
- Carrying out studies specific to these products, training new personnel, providing customer training and providing consultancy to existing customers.
Senior Threat Detection Engineer
Barikat Siber Guvenlik
ÇANKAYA, ANKARA
10.2021 - 01.2022
- Analyzed threat intelligence and determine techniques, tactics and procedures of Threat Actors.
- Used variety of Threat Intelligence Platforms like MISP, OpenCTI, Anomali STAXX. Analyzed threat feeds from variety of threat feeds to interpret and enrichment of data.
- Provide network intrusion detection expertise to support timely and effective decision making of when to declare an incident.
- Analyze a variety of network and host-based security appliance logs to determine the correct remediation actions and escalation paths for each incident
- Assist with the development of processes and procedures to improve incident response times, analysis of incidents, and overall SOC functions
- Provide real-time guidance to customers on network configuration, security settings and policies, and attack mitigation procedures
- Work with SOAR, specifically with Cortex XSOAR to design and create Playbooks. Give consultancy to SOAR customers about creating well defined playbooks for specific threat events. Followed steps such as build, test and debug so that it works correctly with security solutions it is integrated with.
Sr. Information Security Technologies Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
Ankara
01.2019 - 10.2021
- Participated in lots of projects that includes Information Security and Network Security solutions.
- Designing and implementing information security projects.
- Installing, maintaining, updating and performing best practices for network and information security products within SLA. Worked with technologies like, IPS/IDS, Email Security Gateways, Web Gateways, Firewalls, NAC, Endpoint Security Products. In this context participated in largest Military and Government Organization's security projects in Turkey. Also participated in projects for large Financial Organizations in Turkey.
- Managing technical staff and also training them to properly use these technologies.
- Give lectures and trainings to customers and security professionals about security topics.
- Give trainings about specific technologies to our international partners, like Qatar, Azerbaijan.
- Managed team of 4-8 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Reviewed violations of computer security procedures and developed mitigation plans.
- Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.
- Performed network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common problems.
Information Technology Security Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
Ankara
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Engineered, maintained and repaired security systems and programmable logic controls.
- Provided consultation and technical services on all aspects of information security.
- Installed, maintained, updated products and performed best practices for network and information security products within SLA.
- Deployment of Network Security products for organizations with over 50000 employees.
- Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
Network Security Assistant Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
Ankara
04.2016 - 01.2018
- Engineered, maintained and repaired security systems.
- Continuous self-improvement in information security and network security.
- Continuous self-improvement in general Cyber Security concept.
- Responding and finding solutions to any customer request within the SLA period.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Public Administration And Political Science
Gazi Universitesi
Ankara 12.2010 - 02.2015
High School Diploma -
Kocatepe Mimar Kemal Lisesi
Ankara 01.2006 - 01.2010
Skills
Information security
Certification
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Timeline
System Engineer
Inforte Bilişim A.Ş
01.2022 - Current
Senior Threat Detection Engineer
Barikat Siber Guvenlik
10.2021 - 01.2022
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
08-2021
Symantec Certified Specialist - Symantec ProxySG
02-2021
Forescout Certified Engineer
02-2020
Forescout Certified Administrator
04-2019
Sr. Information Security Technologies Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
01.2019 - 10.2021
Information Technology Security Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
01.2018 - 01.2019
McAfee Certified Product Specialist - Network Security Platform
11-2017
Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator
10-2017
Network Security Assistant Specialist
Barikat Internet Guvenligi
04.2016 - 01.2018
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching - CCNA -
04-2016
Bachelor of Arts - Public Administration And Political Science
Gazi Universitesi
12.2010 - 02.2015
High School Diploma -
Kocatepe Mimar Kemal Lisesi
01.2006 - 01.2010