Daniel Yao

Cyber Security Analyst

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

About

Cyber security professional with broad knowledge of Information Technology focused on Security Operation. • Strong technical savvy, eager to learn new skills and technologies with fast learning ability • Competence in concisely explaining problems, both verbally and in a written format • An effective team player with good communication and execution skills coupled with a systematic approach and quick adaptability

Experience

  • Cyber Security Analyst (L2) at Datacom
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Working in Cyber Defence Operations Centre as a Cybersecurity Analyst L2, my daily job involves: * Providing guidance and mentoring to L1 Cybersecurity Analysts. * Handling escalated incident from L1 team or customers by using all available tools like EDR and SIEM. * Fine tuning and creating detection rules in SIEM such as Splunk and Sentinel. * Responding to customer queries, providing customer service that exceeds my customers’ expectations. * Bringing Operational Security Excellence to any threat hunting/identification, threat intel research, threat intel notifications, tuning identification, and identification of enrichment opportunities. * Providing recommendations on platform enhancements and how to improve cybersecurity services. * Incident, Change and Problem Management. * Collaboration meeting with customers regularly. * Daily Event/Incident/Ticket Reviews. * Ensuring documentation and the knowledgebase are kept up to date * Compiling and completing customer reporting. Tool set: * SIEM - Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, CrowdStrike NG SIEM * EDR - Crowdstrike, Microsoft Defender * SOAR - Palo Alto XSOAR

  • Security Analyst at Network Edge
    Jul 2022 - May 2023 · 11 mos

    Working in a small but tight-knit team, I’m responsible for every aspect of security services we provide to customers * New customer onboarding - Sentinel * Monitoring and triage of security alerts * Detection rules creation and fine tuning * Vulnerability scanning * Customer report * Threat Intelligence update to stakeholders * Knowledge sharing and mentoring junior colleagues. Tool set: * SIEM - Microsoft Sentinel * EDR - CrowdStrike * Phishing campaign / Security Awareness Training - Knowbe4 * Vulnerability Assessment - Tenable.io

  • SOC Analyst at eir evo
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

    As SOC Analyst, my daily job involves monitoring and analyzing activities on networks, servers, endpoints, databases, applications, websites, and other critical systems, looking for anomalous activity that could be indicative of a security incident or compromise. • Continuously monitors the customers security infrastructure via SIEM, EDR, SOAR etc • Triage’s security alerts • Triage’s data sources monitoring • Proposition of specific recommendations • Collects data and context necessary to initiate Level 2 escalation • Provide feedback to Level 2 for fine-tuning of detection use cases • Develop runbooks/procedures for handling of security monitoring alerts • Delivers scheduled and ad-hoc reports • Works closely with Level 2 & Level 3 team towards the continuous improvement of the service

  • Computer Technician / System Administrator at City Internet Cafe
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Research, design and implement all IT infrastructure including 1 server and 24 workstations' configurations, management system choice, cabling and wireless network setup. Trouble-shooting all hardware and software issues. Face to face customer service including Microsoft Office suites, games, printing/scanning and etc.

  • System Administrator and Customer Support at WorldWide Trading Ltd NZ
    Aug 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Key responsibilities: • Managing and maintaining the web uploads, design and content that also includes Trademe and e-commerce websites and online ordering software • Trouble-shoot website, online ordering and POS software issues as they arise • Assist in the maintenance and support of internal software and IT infrastructure
 • Help store manager to do simple warehousing and customer service duties. • Supporting the wider team with planning and coordinating digital campaigns and platforms and assist in providing solutions to further our online presence and market share