Ryan McKay

Ryan McKay

Security Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Penetration Tester at American Express

  • Education

    • Farmingdale State College

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of Science Degree Security Systems
  • Experience

    • First Data Corporation

      Dec 2012 - Apr 2015
      Security Engineer

      •Application security evaluations for PCI and PII compliance.•Automated and manual penetration testing.•Analyze applications for security risks detailed in the OWASP Top-10; including SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.•Responsible for web application firewall traffic interpretation and incident response.•Lead a collaborative project with multiple departments focused on enhancing the tracking of outstanding application vulnerabilities throughout the company.•Streamlined team administrative responsibilities by improving and consolidating daily audit status reporting.•Completed security evaluations for over 200+ web based applications, thick client applications, and web services.•Trained new employees and developers on secure coding practices and awareness of security threats. Show less

    • JRI America Inc.

      Apr 2015 - Sept 2019

      • Senior Imperva Securesphere WAF & DAM administrator. Responsible for10 web-based applications and over 100 databases.• Coordinated the Securesphere environment upgrade of 30+ Impervadevices covering 5 different data centers in EMEA and NA.• Constructed new database scanning methodologies for user rightsmanagement, sensitive data classification and database vulnerability scansby coordinating with database administrators.• Oversaw the integration of WAF/DAM with IBM Qradar for SOC monitoring Show less • Led the migration, upgrade and decommission process of multiple securityproducts off Windows 2k3 servers for the End of Life project.• Collaborated with multiple IT teams to install and configure the CentrifyServer Suite. This included project management from conception, networktopology, server configuration, installation and implementation ofPowershell database rotation scripts.• Served as admin for multiple IT Security solutions such as vulnerabilityscanners, WAF, SIEM, and Centrify products. Show less

      • Security Event Analyst (AVP)

        Jun 2016 - Sept 2019
      • Security Event Analyst (Analyst)

        Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
    • American Express

      Sept 2019 - now
      Senior Penetration Tester
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Harvard Leadership Edge

      Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning
      Aug 2022
    • CompTIA Security+

      CompTIA
      Nov 2015
      View certificate certificate
    • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

      (ISC)²
      Jul 2019
      View certificate certificate