Christian Belk

Information Security Engineer at ACS Technologies

Florence, SC, United States

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Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Computer Science

Francis Marion University

2011 : 2016

Bachelor’s Degree

Biology, General

Francis Marion University

2006 : 2010

Experience: Engineered and maintained security systems including Firewalls, Intrusion Detection

Systems (IDS), Antivirus, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), File

Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Network Deception Systems, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Maintained the AWS cloud solution for the PCI Cardholder Data Environment (CDE).

Conducted penetration testing and vulnerability scanning in corporate and cloud

environments. Saved the company more than $30,000 annually by bringing the

penetration testing and vulnerability scanning of the PCI CDE in-house.

Engineered and maintained software to monitor the usage and security of AWS S3

buckets and provide reporting and notifications through integrations with Google Drive and Slack.

Engineered and maintained software that allowed real time text message notifications of IDS alarms using AWS's SNS, SMS, and Lambda services.

Built and maintained policies and procedures for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), and enacted those plans in response to security incidents. Developed casebooks and table top exercises for the Incident Response Team (IRT). Organized and conducted annual security training for developers on secure coding

practices for PCI DSS compliance.

2018 : Present

ACS Technologies

Information Security Engineer

Engineered Security Event and Information Management solution to provide centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting for the PCI Cardholder Data Environment (CDE).

Engineered and maintained network deception systems for the PCI CDE.

Maintained the AWS cloud solution for the PCI CDE.

Automated the building of the PCI CDE using CloudFormation/bash/expect scripting. Conducted penetration testing on ACS's products and in-house solutions.

Conducted network scanning for vulnerability detection, rogue device detection, and

unauthorized services/open port detection.

Gathered and assessed threat intelligence using reputable sources to develop actionable information regarding cyber threats.

Engineered and maintained software to track vulnerabilities from discovery to mitigation/remediation.

Developed casebooks and table top exercises for the Incident Response Team (IRT).

2016 : 2018

ACS Technologies

Security Operations Analyst

Assisted in migrating git instances by writing bash scripts to aid in the move.

Automated the setup of new developer machines using bash scripting.

Built Go apps to crawl certain corporate systems and collect statistical data to be used by management.

Built a dashboard server to present the collected info in useful ways.

Built web server for dashboard in Go, used PostgreSQL for the database layer, and built an API for the data using Go.

Built a webpage for displaying the information.

2016 : 2016

ACS Technologies

Intern

Tutor students at all levels of Mathematics.

Administer and proctor math test.

Help the teachers with their math classes in the Math Hub.

2015 : 2016

Florence-Darlington Technical College

Math Tutor

Administrative Assistant for the Housing Office

2011 : 2015

Francis Marion University

Administrative Assistant

Company: ACS Technologies

Years of Experience: 13

Spoken Language: English

Skills Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, Cryptography, Customer Service, Go, Higher Education, HTML, IDS, Linux, Mathematics, Networking, Penetration Testing, Programming, Psychology, Python, Research, Security, SIEM, System Administration, Teaching, Training, Troubleshooting, Vulnerability Management

About Information Security Analyst with 6+ years of experience. Interested in all things security, networking, and Linux systems. I enjoy challenges and learning new things. Certifications include GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) and GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN).