Nicholas Sikora

About Nicholas Sikora

I\'m Nick.I am a cybersecurity professional tasked with solving challenges related to Artificial Intelligence. My current functional areas include cybersecurity, data science, and supply chain management. I am an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP). I passed the CISSP examination and am an Associate of (ISC)2 - CISSP, and have been Security+ CE certified since September of 2015. I am also a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Experience

1. Incident Response Lead

   Viasat

   Jul 2019 — Present · Carlsbad, CA, US

   I wear many hats-I\'m the Incident Response and Threat Hunting Team Lead responsible for securing environments all of the way from randomly rolled Linux Kernels, to Windows Servers, to whatever the heck Kubernetes applications are-We build or fork our own security tools across multiple clouds, Azure is my favorite but glad to talk AWS-I play Product Owner to do all of the Jira / roadmapping / feature flagging things to make sure that our internal tooling keeps pace with industry expectations and is \"scalable\"-I\'ve helped architect, design, and rollout multiple SIEMs, a few EDR capabilities here and there, a couple Security Automation Orchestration, and Response (SOAR) systems, container security agents, and the pretty much obligatory \"machine learning for cyber\" project or twoAll of the cyber buzzwords, in other words.

Education

• Duquesne University

  BA, Physics, Mathematics Minor

  2012

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2018 — 2021