Security operations covers proactive and responsive monitoring, detection, and incident response — the capability that decides whether an intrusion becomes a contained event or a headline.
I help design and mature SOC capability: log source onboarding and normalisation, SIEM use-case and detection engineering mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, alert triage workflows, and automation that removes repetitive analyst toil so real signals get human attention.
On the response side I build and rehearse the incident response plan: severity definitions, escalation paths, containment and forensic playbooks, communication templates, and tabletop exercises. Post-incident reviews then feed back into detection so the same intrusion path never works twice.
Why it matters
- Detection speed is the single biggest driver of breach cost
- ATT&CK-mapped use cases expose real gaps in monitoring coverage
- Rehearsed playbooks prevent chaos during a live incident
- Automation cuts alert fatigue and analyst burnout
My approach
How the engagement runs
Typical engagement: log coverage and SIEM review, detection engineering sprints, triage and escalation playbooks, IR plan authoring, tabletop exercises and purple-team validation.