Daniel Handley

Information Security Consultant at Dell SecureWorks

• Saudi Arabia - Dammam
• My current job since July 2007

2013 - 2014 - Security & Risk Consultant (Dell SecureWorks). TIER III Security Analyst. Tier III analysts in Saudi Aramco serve as escalation points for TIER 1 and 2 Analysts, perform threat case tuning, event analysis and remediation.

Role Highlights:
• Re-wrote almost 50% of the customer’s current threat cases with regards to incidents.
• SQL tuning and support for the Customer’s SIEM
• Provided guidance and support on VSAT and Database Threat cases.


2010 - 2013 - Network Security Sr. Advisor, iDevice Engineer. (Dell SecureWorks). iDevice Engineers work out of the Dell SecureWorks SOC and serve as subject matter experts on their proprietary syslog, snort, log aggregation and event collector appliances. The iDevice Engineer role is customer facing, and staff are expected to be available and on call 24/7.

Role Highlights:
• Migration of proprietary of IDS / IPS device OS.
• Documented and trained SOC staff on proprietary ‘go forward’ iDevice appliance.
• Provided Customers 24/7 Support on idevice platforms (IPS, Log Collection, Syslog)
• SOC Superstar Award.
• Employee of the month.

2007 - 2010 - SIEM and Application Support Engineer (SecureWorks). The legacy SIEM and Application Support Engineer role in SecureWorks dealt primarily with the application stack surrounding the SIEM and the device management platform. Support Engineers were required to assist in the SDLC, perform beta testing, and support the platform in the event of performance issues or component failures.

Role Highlights:
• Creation of the snort health report for the proprietary snort based SecureWorks IDS/IPS appliance and providing data warehousing and historical reporting for these devices. (Throughput, signature triggers, packets dropped).
• Rebuild and Documentation of IBM MQ Cluster.
• Won rebranding of IPS management competition.