Kendall L.

About Kendall L.

Kendall Lorenz is a Security Engineer II at Purpose Brands, with over a decade of professional experience in the tech industry. He is Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, and CompTIA certified. He enjoys building meaningful relationships and creating effective solutions. Notable experience: Kendall has extensive experience remediating high-severity security incidents from sophisticated threat actors. He played a major role in building a Security Operations Center (SOC), developing a mature and effective security program consisting of prevention & detection systems (XDR, SIEM), playbooks, automation rules, and training incident responders. He also has previous experience installing and configuring networks for cities, banks, schools, and industrial environments, working in data centers, managing hybrid-cloud infrastructure, and providing remote support. Industry Knowledge• Cloud Security: Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud/Identity/Endpoint/Cloud Apps, Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure Policy, and CSPM• SecOps: SIEM, XDR, IAM, zero trust, incident response, vulnerability management, security awareness training• Cloud Infrastructure: Architecture, compute, storage, networking, monitoring, cost management• Network Infrastructure: Firewalls, routing & switching, wireless, voice, site-to-site/client VPN• Server Infrastructure: Virtualization, Active Directory, Group Policy, storage, DHCP, DNS • Datacenter: Design, network/server/storage installation & troubleshooting, low voltage & fiber optics• Consulting: Implementing solutions within clients\' technical and financial requirements

Experience

1. Cloud Security Engineer

   Purpose Brands, LLC

   Jan 2024 — Present

Education

• St Cloud Technical and Community College

  Network and System Administration A.A.S

  2015 — 2017