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Jen Vasquez

IT Security Consultant, Computer & Network Security

Hi, I'm Jen Vasquez. Welcome to my profile!

Jen Vasquez's Bio:

Security evangelist with experience in all people, process, and technology aspects of security. Advisor to fortune 50 and major federal government senior executives. Experience with leading technical merger and acquisition activities as well as integration of acquired services and technologies. Past experience includes leading large teams in development and delivery of security strategy, architectural design, deployment, and operations. Jen enjoys any challenge where she has the opportunity to design and deploy solutions to solve problems. She's has a natural tendency towards leadership with a passion to guide and grow others to reach their full potential. Specialties: Technical design and operational experience in many major security technologies including security event & information management, security taxonomy, anomaly detection, APT analysis and event correlation, firewall, virtual private networking, intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability management, risk and compliance management, content management, data loss prevention, malware analysis technologies, forensics and incident management, and more.

Jen Vasquez's Experience:

  • Service Delivery Manager / Advisory Security Consultant at IBM

    March 2011 - November 2012

    Manage all aspects of technical delivery of IBMs professional and managed security services for multiple fortune 500 companies. Guidance includes people (hires), process (including architectural standards guidance where needed), and technology selection (ex. vulnerability management services, all aspects of SIEM, intrusion prevention, application firewall, proxy, advanced persistent threat deterrence, and more). As part of this role Jen serves as technical leader and security evangelist to customer CISO, CIO, CRO, and senior VPs in all aspects of new service design, deployment, day to day steady state operations and incident manager during incident response across multiple industry customers.

  • Scrum Master and Security SME at IBM - Security Services

    September 2009 - December 2011

    Agile scrum master, program manager, and Architect(SME) of IBM MSS's home grown correlation engine and workflow development teams. This included evolution of SIEM collection and correlation capabilities along with evolution of advanced workflow integration with operations.

  • Technical MSS Lead - Acquisition of Internet Security Services at IBM Global Services

    April 2006 - September 2009

    1. Led Technical MSS due diligence for ISS MSS acquisition 2. Led technical integration of ISS managed security services into IBM ((ex. network design, audit/compliance technical certifications, etc.) 3. Migration of Legacy MSS Customer base to ISS and support for all new business, including hands on keyboard migration of 1000+ devices. 4. Technical SME for new IBM Security strategy, offering development, and implementation 5. Reporting directly to IBM M&A senior executives

  • Senior Security Services Architect at IBM

    May 2004 - April 2006

    In this position Jen led security architecture for IBM's managed security services delivery organization. Responsibilities included strategy oversight, design evolution of architecture, and operations support of the infrastructure for 600+ IBM MSS customers. This post included a rearchitecture of the IBM MSS delivery's Security Event Management infrastructure to enhance security monitoring through scalability, event classification, and advanced correlation.

  • Senior Information Security Advisor - TSA/DHS at IBM

    September 2002 - May 2004

    In this position Jen was dedicated to a major security government entity as a security advisor to the Chief Information Security Advisor. Responsibilities included technical security guidance on all major security initiatives (i.e. architecture, infrastructure deployments, incident management, risk assessments, policy development, architecture design, guidance to senior decision makers, etc.) This position reported directly to the CISO. This post included award of SBU clearance.

  • Security Architect at Level 3

    March 2002 - September 2002

    In this position Jen was senior security architect responsible for technical review of corporate architectures and security program. Focus included work in review of all new architecture to assure alignment to security architecture standards, enterprise risk assessment (including penetration testing) including merger and acquisition candidates, development and operational guidance for vulnerability management, and incident management.

  • Internet Security Architect at Guardent

    August 2000 - March 2002

    In this position Jen was a member of the originating team responsible for design and development of Guardent's (Acquired by Verisign) managed security services delivery architecture. Her primary focus during these two years was design and development of the vulnerability management and intrusion detection service architectures and service offerings along with infrastructure support and operations enablement to provide Guardent their first vulnerability management and intrusion detection services.

  • Internet Security Analyst at IBM

    January 1998 - August 2000

    IBM Emergency Response Services 1996-2000 - Development and technical support of IBM's first Vulnerability Management Services, Intrusion Detection Services, Incident Response Services serving IBM NA and EMEA. This included professional security services engagements completing risk assessments, penetration testing, and emergency response incident handling.

  • AIX technical Support Analyst at IBM

    1994 - 1998

    1. Trained IBM employees and customers on technical security topics (Firewall, proxy, TCP/IP, penetration testing) through conference presentations, workshops, white papers, and red books. 2. Provided client technical support for IBM's Secureway Firewall and Checkpoint firewall-1 product. Checkpoint FW-1 certified on Solaris and AIX. IBM's Secureway Firewall certified on AIX. 3. AIX System / Network administrator for 150 AIX technical support service delivery personnel. AIX Certified System Administrator.

  • Security Services Transformation Executive at IBM

    November 2012

    In this position Jen is leading a security service innovation and excellence initiative to grow next generation Managed Security Services (MSS) capabilities. Today MSSPs live with a growing expectation for fully integrated customer security operations. This includes integrated operations for management of infrastructure, intimate understanding (through data feeds) of the customer's environment to identify threat and accurately quantify risk, while preemptively protecting against attacks. This project includes all aspects of people, process, and technology. One primary initiative in this project is to evolve the security intelligence to big data integration evolving the capability to hunt for attackers and create effective and efficient methodologies for knowing accurate threat to risk detection coupled with accurate and timely incident response.

Jen Vasquez's Education:

  • Kansas State University

    1989 – 1994
    BS

  • Kansas State University

    1989 – 1994
    BS
    Concentration: Marketing

Jen Vasquez's Interests & Activities:

IT, Internet Security, Equine Facilitated Learning, Natural Horsemanship, Coaching, Marriage, Christianity, Interval Training, Nutrition




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