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Michael Ricci

Separating from the military in October, I will have honorably served 8 years in the United States Navy as an Intelligence Specialist. At the United States European Command, I served as a Counter Terrorism analyst conducting all source analysis building networks, products and briefing high level military personnel. In that position, I was selected to deploy with the Joint Special Operations Command where I was awarded the Joint Service Commendation medal. I also worked as a Counter Intelligence analyst, becoming the Counter Intelligence Team Lead of 15 analysts collaborating with NATO and other partner nations, as well as FBI, CIA, NSA and other federal agencies.

Recently, I have over 3 years of experience as a Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst on a cyber protection team (CPT) and the Cyber Intelligence Division at Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command where I served as division team lead of 9 analysts. In this role, I streamlined processes like, creating a Job Qualification Requirement procedure which fully qualified new analysts 50% faster than previous requirements.

Currently, I am interning at DefendEdge. I started as a Tier 1 SOC analyst, where I bolstered 24/7/365 monitoring, management, and support across the globe with real-time threat detection & response to zero-day attacks and vulnerabilities. Now, as a member of the CTI team, I engage in global operations through our proprietary iDNA platform in discovering, identifying, evaluating, and reporting on bad actors, impersonations, compromises, and other risk activities to our clients and homeland.

I possess the CompTIA CySA+, and Security+ certifications and am completing my Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Technology, with a certificate in Cyber Threat Hunting from the University of Maryland Global Campus. I am expecting to graduate in July 2024. I am passionate about learning new technologies and techniques to enhance my expertise and knowledge. My core competencies include threat analysis, CTI, threat hunting, risk assessment, network security, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and incident response.