Myaire Latimer
Hapeville
Summary
Dynamic Cyber Threat Analyst with a proven track record in utilizing EDR and SIEM for threat detection and remediation, coupled with exceptional analytical and evidence-based decision-making skills. Achieved significant enhancements in security incident detection and response processes. Seeking to utilize excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills to complete tasks. Reliable with a good work ethic and the ability to quickly adapt to new tasks and environments.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior SOC Analyst & XSOAR UAT Coordinator
TRUIST
10.2024 - Current
- Lead advanced SOC operations including SIEM monitoring, rule creation, and incident investigations, while mentoring junior analysts and driving continuous improvement.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting and purple teaming exercises to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen enterprise defenses.
- Assist threat hunters with in-depth investigations, providing correlation, enrichment, and documentation support to accelerate case resolution.
- Manage UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for XSOAR playbooks, integrations, and rules, ensuring new automations are validated before production deployment.
- Coordinate cross-team testing sessions, document test outcomes, and track open issues, rejections, and approvals.
- Develop and refine SOC playbooks and detection use cases to enhance automation, reduce false positives, and improve incident response efficiency.
• Collaborate with threat intelligence and engineering teams to enrich alerts, align detection logic, and optimize security coverage across the environment.
• Deliver structured reports and feedback to leadership, highlighting SOC metrics, emerging threats, and areas for operational improvement.
Cyber Threat Analyst
Southern Company Gas
12.2022 - 10.2024
- Perform accurate and timely analysis and reporting of security events from a wide variety of technology sources.
- Identify anomalous trends in event data to detect potential security issues.
- Assess, triage, and escalate security events within an incident management process.
- Leverage current and emerging threat information to enhance prevention, detection, and response to security events.
- Ensure that all monitoring and response efforts are documented clearly and consistently, and retained for historical analysis and reporting purposes.
- Collaborate effectively with other business areas to identify and address security events.
- Collect and preserve security incident evidence in a forensically sound manner.
- Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.
Security Operations Center Analyst
Warner Media Discovery - CNN
07.2020 - 01.2023
- Document and escalate incidents that could have ongoing or immediate impacts on the environment.
- Exhibit strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Compile daily summary reports detailing events and activities relevant to cyber operations.
- Conduct trend analysis on cyber operations and generate related reports.
- Continuously contribute to the development and refinement of SOC playbooks.
- Perform quarterly hunts and training to stay current with the latest threats and methodologies.
- Participate actively in team chats, conference calls, and face-to-face meetings.
- Execute thorough and high-quality triage and analysis for all incoming alerts.
- Assist and act as a mentor to junior members of the analysis team as needed.
- Utilize software to respond promptly to security alerts and potential attacks.
- Assist team lead analysts in the remediation efforts for Incident Response security incidents when needed.
- Document and communicate findings for security incidents using proper terminology.
- Perform analyses on phishing and firewall alerts, providing timely detection and investigating whether the alerts indicate anomalous or potential intrusion activities.
- Analyze Splunk logs and use custom queries to gain further insights into firewall traffic and various other alert types, distinguishing evidence of malicious from benign activities.
- Investigate various phishing campaigns and embedded URLs using OSINT tools such as Silo, Authenticate8, Shodan.io, and VirusTotal to determine whether the source's intent is malicious or benign.
- Consistently use Carbon Black Threat Hunter and SentinelOne to investigate alerting process trees related to company assets and their connection to malicious watchlist alerts.
- Use Microsoft Outlook 365 to notify employees about malicious indicators found in phishing campaigns and specific potential malicious triggers.
- Assist in the AWS IAM GuardDuty detection uplift project with Senior Analysts.
- Answer 24/7 SOC hotline calls to address employees' concerns.
Education
Technical Certification - Cyber/Electronic Operatio
Year Up of Greater Atlanta
Dual Enrollment - undefined
Chattahoochee Technical College
Skills
- MDE
- AZURE Identity
- Falcon Crowd Strike
- Palo Alto XSOAR
- RangeForce
- Fireye / Trellix
- SentinelOne XDR
- Carbon Black
- Remediation In Azure (Dismiss Risk, Reset MFA, Revoke Sessions)
- Palo Alto Threat Vault
- Password Reset Security
- Wireshark
- Proofpoint Server
- ThreatGrid
- Proofpoint TAP
- SNOW
- Cisco Prime
- BlueCoat
- Documentation And Reporting
- Root Cause Analysis
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
- MS Excel
- DDoS Monitoring
- Threat hunting
Certification
- Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) | (ISC) 2 | 2023
- Splunk 7.x Fundamentals Part 1 (eLearning) | 2021
Website, Portfolio and Profiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/myaire-l-1a49951b6
Timeline
Senior SOC Analyst & XSOAR UAT Coordinator
TRUIST
10.2024 - Current
Cyber Threat Analyst
Southern Company Gas
12.2022 - 10.2024
Security Operations Center Analyst
Warner Media Discovery - CNN
07.2020 - 01.2023
Dual Enrollment - undefined
Chattahoochee Technical College
Technical Certification - Cyber/Electronic Operatio
Year Up of Greater Atlanta
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