Rona Marie B. Cabugao
Taguig City
Summary
Develop and refine technical and personal skills and use those expertise to successfully and efficiently implement challenging and complex projects in the field of Network Security.
Results-driven management professional with proven ability to lead teams to success. Strong focus on team collaboration, operational efficiency, and achieving measurable outcomes. Adept at strategic planning, process improvement, and fostering culture of accountability and excellence. Known for adaptability and consistently meeting changing organizational needs.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
TDR Manager
Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services
01.2023 - Current
- Coordinates with both internal and external teams in performing incident handling and mitigation process.
- Manages specific projects and coordinates with Operations Team and Project Manager.
- Proposes and presents changes on different approval board implementation.
- Led the CSIRT coordinating rapid and efficient response to cyber threats and ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
- Implements necessary policy changes as per request or results of any incident
- Attends meetings with major stakeholders to further discuss any incidents and problems.
Senior Consultant L2 SOC
Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services
04.2018 - Current
- Monitored security alerts to identify and mitigate potential threats.
- Analyzed security data to support incident response and threat intelligence efforts.
- Improved network security by implementing effective monitoring tools.
- Collaborated with IT teams for optimizing security protocols.
- Investigated security breaches to prevent future occurrences.
- Developed incident response plans, ensuring rapid resolution of security events.
- Provided technical support to ensure robust cybersecurity posture.
- Utilized threat intelligence to anticipate emerging security risks.
- Participated in security training sessions to improve team knowledge.
- Documented security incidents to track and identify patterns.
- Reduced false alarms by fine-tuning intrusion detection system configurations based on historical analysis of incidents.
- Identified root causes of security breaches through thorough investigation and analysis of log data.
- Provided technical support during high-priority incidents, ensuring timely resolution with minimal impact on business operations.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all SOC activities, facilitating knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Provided expert guidance on cybersecurity trends and emerging threats to internal stakeholders for informed decisionmaking.
- Improved incident management workflows through streamlined communication between SOC Analysts, IT departments, and other relevant parties.
- Trained junior analysts in threat intelligence gathering techniques, improving overall team efficiency.
- Guided junior analysts in investigation of complex security incidents, fostering culture of learning and development.
- Monitored real-time security alerts to identify potential threats, significantly reducing incident response times.
- Led cybersecurity awareness programs, increasing staff vigilance against phishing and social engineering attacks.
Systems/Network Security Engineer
CASPO INC.
06.2018 - Current
- Company Overview: BPO Company
- Analyzes endpoint and network threats events observed on security solutions
- Performs daily health checks on managed security solutions
- Participates in the deep-dive investigation of incidents performed by the Incident Response Team
- Coordinates with the Helpdesk, Network, Messaging and Endpoint Teams to process certain requests
- Proposes and presents changes on different approval boards before implementation
- Tunes policies of endpoint and network security solutions to improve their accuracy and efficiency
- Implements necessary policy changes as per requests or results of any incident
- Manages specific projects until completion
- Creates weekly report for different security solutions to keep tract on the endpoints that we are managing
- Making sure that all units has security agent installed, and the patch are all up to date
- BPO Company
Systems Engineer
NEXUS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
06.2014 - 04.2018
- Company Overview: IT Company that provides networking and security solutions
- Assign/deploy to different clients for administration, monitoring and investigation of implemented security products (NSM, SIEM, Email/Web Gateway, and Endpoint.)
- Prepares Proof-Of-Concept presentations and hands-on to present solution's capabilities and functions
- Performs site survey and initial configuration in preparation for the implementation of projects
- Troubleshoots issues and monitors resolutions to issues and concerns
- Tunes policies on network security appliances to maximize their efficiency
- Analyzes and provides insights on events generated by security solutions
- Coordinates with clients to further check their concerns during and after implementation
- Conducts knowledge transfer sessions to provide clients with basic knowledge on a security solution
- IT Company that provides networking and security solutions
Education
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines04-2013
Skills
- Password Management (PasswordState)
- Network Security Platform (McAfee)
- Security Information and Event Management (Qradar/Logscale/Splunk)
- Endpoint Detection and Response (CrowdStrike/Tanium)
- Phishing Analysis (ProofPoint)
- Case management (Demisto/TheHive)
- Vulnerability Scanning (Tenable/Qualys/NMAP/Rapid7 InsightVM)
Certification
- ISACA Certified CISM ID: 221975615
- CompTIA Certified CySA+ ID: COMP001021608970
- Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate ID: CSCO14059728
Reason For Leaving
In search of an opportunity to further develop my professional skills.
Training
- Click Studios: Passwordstate Administration Course
- McAfee University: McAfee Email Gateway Administration Course
- McAfee University: Advanced Threat Defense Administration Course
- McAfee Network Security Platform Pre-Sales (ACE) Course
- McAfee Web Courses for Advanced Threat Defense, Network Security Platform, Security Information and Event Management, Web Gateway and ePolicy Orchestrator
- CCNA - Ironlink Manila
- CompTIA Cysa + Course
- CompTIA Security+ Course
Timeline
TDR Manager
Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services
01.2023 - Current
Systems/Network Security Engineer
CASPO INC.
06.2018 - Current
Senior Consultant L2 SOC
Ernst & Young Global Delivery Services
04.2018 - Current
Systems Engineer
NEXUS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
06.2014 - 04.2018
- ISACA Certified CISM ID: 221975615
- CompTIA Certified CySA+ ID: COMP001021608970
- Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate ID: CSCO14059728
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
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