Mason Dehgan

About Mason Dehgan

Innovative and results-driven Cyber Forensic Security Analyst with over 8 years of…

Experience

1. Level 3 Cyber Threat Analyst

   Technogen, Inc.

   Oct 2024 — Present · MD, US

   Threat Hunting on a new disclosed vulnerabilities from CISA notifications/commercial third parties intelligence within the environment Collaborated with Incident response Team to investigate and respond to security incidents, providing expert analysis and support Investigated security alerts, network traffic, endpoint logs CrowdStrike, Tanium, proxy logs, PaloAlto Firewall and other feeds to identify anomalies and potential Threats Document and report findings, including potential risks, vulnerabilities and recommended remediation steps to various State Agencies Worked with Cyber Threat Intelligence Team to refine/tuning alerts from Splunk ES dashboard, creating Splunk Search queries based on MITRE ATT & CK framework mapping to their correspondence T-Codes Integrate Threat Intelligence Recorded Future data into hunting activities ensuring that the State of Maryland network infrastructure is protected against emerging threats Collaborated with CTI Team to improve detection rules in Splunk refine security reporting policies from the agencies and enhance the overall security posture Conducted a Comprehensive Threat Research on zero day vulnerabilities that bypasses CrowdStrike Endpoint protection for State of Maryland Cyber Team such as Threats associated with threat browser extension installations Remote access trojans, unauthorized remote admin tools download/executions from LolBins binaries Performed advanced hunts in CrowdStrike Falcon event search AQL to identify persistence, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. Extracted and analyzed endpoint telemetry to trace attacker TTPs aligned with MITRE ATT & CK Collaborated with SOC to integrate AQL hunting playbooks into detection pipelines

Education

• Northern Virginia Community College

  Associate Degree

  2009 — 2011

• George Mason University

  Bachelor of Applied Information Technology

  2012 — 2013

Skills

• Ganttchart Excel
• Wireshark
• Java
• Forensic Tools
• Sql
• Microsoft Project
• IT Business Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Tcp/Ip
• Ipsec
• Business Analysis
• Project Planning
• Byod Policy
• Firewalls
• Networking
• Windows 7
• Forensic Analysis
• Information Security
• Xhtml
• Network Security
• Ms Project
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Troubleshooting
• Snmp
• Social Engineering
• Php
• C&a
• Security
• Nmap
• Sharepoint
• Vulnerability Assessment