Ryan Thompson

About Ryan Thompson

While on my team Ryan initiated and completed several projects that resulted in process and tooling improvements which we use in our operations today.\"- Sean Leinart, Senior Manager @ Alert Logic\"It was a pleasure working and collaborating with Ryan on a daily basis at Elastic. I\'ll definitely miss the curiosity and constant inspiration to ask,\"why?\"- Brandon Devault, Education Architect @ Elastic

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Security Researcher (Overwatch R & d)

   CrowdStrike

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Research and emulate adversary activity across AWS and Azure- Build out proof-of-concept solutions for threat hunting- Develop novel detection capabilities in the cloud control plane- Engineer log normalization and filtering to allow for scalability without impeding threat detection

Education

• University of Houston

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Supply Chain Management

  2010 — 2013

Skills

• Executive Presentation Skills
• Solution Implementation
• Business Continuity Planning
• Comptia Security+
• User Acceptance Testing
• Microsoft Office
• Supply Chain Management
• Data Analysis
• Subnetting
• Basic Sql
• Slpunk
• Change Management
• Security Information and Event Management (Siem)
• Microsoft Excel
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Comptia Network+
• Ariba Cloud
• Incident Investigation
• Comptia Cybersecurity Analyst+
• Inventory Management
• Log Analysis