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Miya Cho

Oakville,ON

Summary

With over 25 years of expertise in IT and Cyber Security, and a concentrated focus on SIEM architecture for the past 10 years, I excel in architecture and design, implementation, customization, and delivery of sophisticated security solutions.

The recent role as a lead architect over the past 2.5 years, specializing in Cloud Native SIEM, Sentinel MSSP service, and Microsoft 365 Defender, I equipped myself with well-rounded skill set and a solid foundation in the latest security technologies. This experience positions well to handle project effectively for the medium to large enterprise customers.

Data protection and governance are increasingly crucial in today's organizational landscape, capturing my interest and leading me to specialize in safeguarding data. Currently, I am expanding the expertise by integrating Microsoft Purview with the existing knowledge of Microsoft 365 Defender.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification

Work History

LEAD ARCHITECT- SIEM

TELUS
05.2010 - Current
  • Perform major activities for architecting, designing and developing TELUS Sentinel MSSP service
  • Work on building MSSP MS 365 Defender XDR, Security Co-pilot and Defender for Cloud
  • Sentinel deployments involving financial, city, school board customers
  • Assist responding to POCs, RFPs and creating SOWs
  • Administer Microsoft Azure and Security portal
  • Work closely with all project stakeholder
  • Solid Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK Framework and SOAR
  • Integrate Sentinel as Service with Github
  • PowerBI Reports with Power Query Formula Language (M Language)
  • Install, upgrade, configure, and administer all Logrhythm Enterprise product
  • Deploy and administer infrastructure for appliance and software based ArcSight product
  • Perform sizing and architecture recommendations for large scale deployments

Consultant

Forsythe Canada Inc
09.2008 - 03.2009
  • Network security testing and 30+ firewalls review
  • Implement network security for remote access
  • Configure site to site and clients to site VPN tunnels
  • Install CheckPoint on Nokia platform and configured UTM-edge appliances
  • Maintain Nokia IPSO and CheckPoint FW
  • Install Console Components in distributed environment

Team Lead/Programmer

Buchanan Associates
12.2004 - 04.2006
  • Security audit and penetration testing
  • Install and configure UNIX, LINUX system, Samba, Apache web server and Tomcat
  • Maintain DB2, Oracle, Sun One Web Server
  • Develop Online Flight Reservation for client's internal website on AIX and Windows environment.

Education

Internet Communications Technology Co-op -

Sheridan College
Oakville, ON
01.2010

School of Arts, Psychology -

York University
Toronto, ON
01.2002

Software Programming Engineering with Honors -

Primetech Institute
Toronto, ON
01.1999

Skills

    Strong Customer-First Mindset

    Exceptional Project Delivery Service

    Strategic leader and skilled negotiator

    Foster positive relationships

    Microsoft 365 Defender XDR, Security Co-pilot and Defender for Cloud

    SIEM: Microsoft Sentinel, Logrhythm, Splunk, ArcSight ConnApp, Logger, ESM

    Authentication: CryptoCard, TACACS

    Vulnerability scanning: Qualys

    Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Juniper SSG, CheckPoint, Palo Alto

    Advanced Malware Protection: FireEye, SourceFire

    IDS/IPS technologies: Tippingpoint, Cisco, McAfee

    Development Languages: C, Shell Scripting, VB, JAVA

    Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, ASP, JSP, PHP, Apache

Certification

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
  • Check Point Certified Security Administrator NGX (CCSA-NGX)
  • Check Point Certified Security Expert NGX (CCSE-NGX)
  • Cisco Meraki Networking Associate (CMNA)
  • TrendMicro Deep Security Certified Professional
  • Currently working on Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100)

Languages

English
Professional Working
Korean
Native or Bilingual
French
Limited Working

Timeline

LEAD ARCHITECT- SIEM

TELUS
05.2010 - Current

Consultant

Forsythe Canada Inc
09.2008 - 03.2009

Team Lead/Programmer

Buchanan Associates
12.2004 - 04.2006

Internet Communications Technology Co-op -

Sheridan College

School of Arts, Psychology -

York University

Software Programming Engineering with Honors -

Primetech Institute
Miya Cho