Jim Proffitt

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ABOUT JIM PROFFITT

Seasoned cyber security specialist with 8+ years of experience leading incident response, threat hunting, and security operations across high‑growth digital environments. I focus on detecting, disrupting, and eradicating threats before they impact customers, revenue, or brand trust.My work spans the full incident lifecycle: from triage, containment, and forensics to post‑incident review and long‑term control improvements. I’m particularly experienced in tackling malware, social engineering, and complex multi‑vector attacks, and turning those cases into practical playbooks and detections.Core strengths include:• Incident management & response: Coordinating technical and business stakeholders, driving clear timelines, and restoring normal operations with minimal disruption.• Threat hunting: Hypothesis‑driven hunts using endpoint, network, identity and cloud telemetry to uncover stealthy attackers and advanced persistent threats.• Malware & attack analysis: Breaking down tooling, infrastructure and TTPs to inform detections, hardening, and intel sharing.• Social engineering defence: Raising resilience against phishing, pretexting and fraud through both technical controls and targeted awareness.• OSINT & threat intelligence: Using open‑source and commercial intelligence to track actors, campaigns, and emerging techniques and feeding them back into operations.I’m passionate about applying AI, machine learning and large language models to security: from accelerating investigations and log analysis to building smarter detections and automated response workflows. I see AI as a force multiplier for defenders, not a replacement.Based in the North West of England, I’m always open to connecting with other practitioners, leaders and researchers to talk incident response, threat hunting, and practical applications of AI in security.