Ousmane Traore

About Ousmane Traore

SOC Analyst with hands-on experience defending cloud and on-prem environments through…

Experience

1. Soc Analyst Incident Response Analyst

   East Atlantic Leads

   Jun 2022 — Present · MD, US

   Investigate and respond to 100+ security alerts per week using Splunk, Elastic, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel, reducing false positives by 25%- Monitor Azure Sentinel and AWS CloudTrail logs to detect and remediate cloud-based threats, improving detection accuracy by 30%- Conduct weekly vulnerability scans across 500+ endpoints, analyzed results, and coordinated remediation efforts, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 40% within six months- Lead incident response for high-severity alerts, achieving an average containment time of under 30 minutes per incident- Perform threat hunting and log correlation to uncover previously undetected malicious activity, leading to a 20% increase in threat visibility- Fine-tune SIEM and EDR rules, enhancing detection precision and cutting alert fatigue by 15%- Integrate Microsoft Defender telemetry into Sentinel, expanding endpoint visibility by 50%- Deliver quarterly security awareness training for 150+ employees, decreasing phishing click rates by 35%- Evaluate third-party vendor risk assessments and improved compliance with organizational security standards- Produce detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports and post-incident reviews to drive continuous process improvements.