Josh McBreen

Experience

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  United States Air Force

  Jan 2002 - Aug 2021

  - Directed large-scale development and implementation of Microsoft services and virtual server solutions to meet business needs and build client loyalty supporting 4-Star General headquarters program- Led and managed staff of 48 IT professionals engaged in maintaining, integrating, and administering 458 servers across classified networks supporting 5.8 thousand joint warfighters- Supervised cyber security vulnerability program resulting in 135 server compliance across 32 southeast and deployed locations- Increased IT productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness, leading team of 14 to design VMware high-availability solutions Show less

  • Operations Training Team Lead

    Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Operations Team Lead

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Cyber Protection Team Lead

    Dec 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Cyber Readiness Team Lead

    Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Cyber Crew Lead

    Jul 2014 - Nov 2016

  • Senior Windows System Administrator

    Jun 2010 - Jul 2014

  • System Administrator

    Jun 2005 - Jun 2010

  • Information Technology System Administrator

    Jan 2002 - Jun 2005
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  Ascent Solutions LLC

  Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  Security Consultant
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  Ascent Solutions LLC

  Aug 2021 - Mar 2023

  Consultant

  - Lead DFIR Analyst. 10+ DFIR engagements- Senior Incident Manager (Tier 3) for Managed SOC, supporting 6 organizations- Performed vulnerability assessment across 43, /16 IP ranges worldwide- Performed active threat hunt for an organization with over 50,000 endpoints

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  Dell Technologies

  Apr 2023 - now

  - Review all security incidents to determine root cause and work with appropriate teams to resolve any security gaps.- Work with vulnerability management and threat mitigation teams to remediate larger scale issues.- Make organization wide recommendations for improving overall security posture. - L3 (Tier 3) analyst for global Incident Response Team, monitoring 2M+ assets and 120K+ users- Provided 1v1 and larger group mentoring/technical sessions for junior analysts- Continual process improvement to ensure efficiency in Incident Response

  • Cyber Threat Hunter

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Technical Lead

    May 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Consultant, Incident Response

    Apr 2023 - Jun 2024