Deploy and configure the Dragos Platform for OT network monitoring, leveraging its 600+ industrial protocol parsers, intelligence-driven threat detection analytics, and asset visibility capabilities to protect ICS environments against threat groups like VOLTZITE, GRAPHITE, and BAUXITE.

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC form the three pillars of email authentication. Together they prevent domain spoofing, validate message integrity, and define policies for handling unauthenticated mail. Proper im

Implements full disk encryption using Microsoft BitLocker on Windows endpoints to protect data at rest from unauthorized access in case of device loss or theft. Use when deploying encryption for compliance requirements, securing mobile workstations, or implementing data protection controls across the enterprise. Activates for requests involving BitLocker encryption, disk encryption, TPM configuration, or data-at-rest protection.

Ed25519 is a high-performance digital signature algorithm using the Edwards curve Curve25519. It provides 128-bit security with 64-byte signatures and 32-byte keys, offering significant advantages ove

The Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis provides a structured framework for analyzing cyber intrusions by examining four core features - Adversary, Capability, Infrastructure, and Victim. This skill covers implementing the Diamond Model programmatically to classify and correlate intrusion events, build activity threads, and generate pivot-ready intelligence.

Integrates Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) into CI/CD pipelines using open-source tools. Covers Semgrep for SAST, Trivy for SCA and container scanning, OWASP ZAP for DAST, and Gitleaks for secrets detection. Activates for requests involving DevSecOps pipeline setup, automated security scanning in CI/CD, SAST/DAST/SCA integration, or shift-left security implementation.

Implementing device posture assessment as a zero trust access control by integrating endpoint health signals from CrowdStrike ZTA, Microsoft Intune, and Jamf into conditional access policies that enforce compliance before granting resource access.

Implements Delinea Secret Server for privileged access management (PAM) including secret vault configuration, role-based access policies, automated password rotation, session recording, and integration with Active Directory and cloud platforms. Activates for requests involving PAM deployment, privileged credential vaulting, secret server administration, or password rotation automation.

Deploy and monitor Canary Tokens via the Thinkst Canary API for deception-based breach detection using web bug tokens, DNS tokens, document tokens, and AWS key tokens.

Configure Cloudflare DDoS protection with managed rulesets, rate limiting, WAF rules, Bot Management, and origin protection to mitigate volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks.

Implements data loss prevention policies using Microsoft Purview to protect sensitive information across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, endpoint devices, and Power BI. The analyst configures sensitivity labels with encryption and content marking, creates DLP policies using built-in and custom sensitive information types with regex patterns, deploys endpoint DLP rules to control file operations on Windows and macOS devices, and monitors policy effectiveness through Activity Explorer and DLP alert management. Uses PowerShell cmdlets and the Microsoft Graph API for programmatic policy management. Activates for requests involving DLP policy creation, sensitivity label configuration, data classification, endpoint data protection, or Microsoft Purview compliance administration.

Deploy Breach and Attack Simulation tools to continuously validate security control effectiveness by safely emulating real-world attack techniques across the kill chain.

Enforce Kubernetes network segmentation using Calico CNI network policies and global network policies to control pod-to-pod traffic, restrict egress, and implement zero-trust microsegmentation.

Reduce container attack surface by building application images on Google distroless base images that contain only the application runtime with no shell, package manager, or unnecessary OS utilities.

Implement secure conduit architecture for OT remote access following IEC 62443 zones and conduits model, deploying jump servers, MFA-enabled gateways, session recording, and approval-based workflows to control vendor and engineer access to industrial control systems without exposing OT networks directly.

Configure Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Conditional Access policies for zero trust access control. Covers signal-based policy design, device compliance requirements, risk-based authentication, named l

This skill covers implementing code signing for build artifacts to ensure integrity and authenticity throughout the software supply chain. It addresses signing binaries, packages, and containers using GPG, Sigstore, and platform-specific signing tools, establishing trust chains, and verifying signatures in deployment pipelines.

Implements cloud workload protection using boto3 and google-cloud APIs for runtime security monitoring, process anomaly detection, and file integrity checking on EC2/GCE instances. Scans for cryptomining, reverse shells, and unauthorized binaries. Use when building runtime security controls for cloud compute workloads.

This skill covers deploying and tuning Web Application Firewall rules on AWS WAF, Azure WAF, and Cloudflare to protect cloud-hosted applications against OWASP Top 10 attacks. It details configuring managed rule sets, creating custom rules for business logic protection, implementing rate limiting, deploying bot management, and reducing false positives through rule tuning and logging analysis.

Implement Cloud Security Posture Management using AWS Security Hub, Azure Defender for Cloud, and open-source tools like Prowler and ScoutSuite for multi-cloud vulnerability detection.

Implementing AWS CloudTrail log analysis for security monitoring, threat detection, and forensic investigation using Athena, CloudWatch Logs Insights, and SIEM integration to identify unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and suspicious API activity.

Implementing Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to continuously monitor multi-cloud environments for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks using Prowler, ScoutSuite, AWS Security Hub, Azure Defender, and GCP Security Command Center.

Implementing Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) using Amazon Macie, Azure Information Protection, and Google Cloud DLP API to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across cloud storage, databases, and data pipelines.

Implement the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model v2.0 across the five pillars of identity, devices, networks, applications, and data to achieve progressive organizational zero trust maturity.