Ahmet Kilinc

About Ahmet Kilinc

Proven technical leader, with over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity domain…

Experience

1. Cybersecurity Consulting

   EY

   Apr 2018 — Present

   Helping clients achieve greater Cybersecurity posture to decrease risk exposure. Focus areas of Cyber Threat Management, Next Generations Security Operations, Threat Detection and Response, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting. Experience with service offerings including Cyber security as a service, Cyber managed service, Threat exposure management, Threat detection and response, and managed threat hunting. Building and managing global high performing teams from diverse geographical and cultural areas including across the United States, India and Argentina. Coordinating teams across multiple workstreams including TDR, CTI, threat exposure management (TEM), and penetration testing. Incorporating rapid feedback and continuous improvement in processes and operations; mentoring and coaching. Building quarterly and multi-year strategy for security operations Acting as the global operations leader for TDR services for two organizations with over 30k endpoints each, including one well known quick service restaurant (over 3k locations) and one publicly traded eyeglass organization (over 1k locations plus e-commerce operations). Acted as the subject matter expert for threat hunting services for all next generation security operations group and gave thought leadership in threat hunting methodology including hunt processes, hunt types, hunt outputs, and reporting. Designed technical solutions for CTI management, signature development, and threat hunting programs, utilizing breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions (i.e. AttackIQ) and cyber threat intelligence curation solutions (i.e. ThreatQuotient). Enabled rapid threat hunting efforts utilizing data aggregation at SIEM, dashboarding, and automated search and reporting. Utilized MITRE ATT & CK framework to determine gaps in threat detection and supplementing with CTI driven hunting. Experience with verity SIEM, EDR, and network monitoring tools. Vendor and budget management experience including 7-figure budget management

Education

• Middle Georgia State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology

  2014 — 2017

• Western Governors University

  Masters of Science, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

  2018 — 2018

• Gwinnett Technical College

  Associate's degree, Networking

  2009 — 2011

• Gwinnett Technical College

  Associate's degree, Cybersecurity

  2009 — 2011