I have over 15 years of experience working in information security and over 40+ years in IT and Engineering. Currently, I currently work as Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, supporting enterprise security systems and managing, monitoring, and enhancing critical security infrastructure. Previously, I worked as Security Engineer in Healthcare, where I supported enterprise firewalls, SIEM, VPN, Patient and vendor access portals. I worked with various teams supporting hospital systems, including electronic health record systems. Competencies: firewalls, Proxies, IDS, IPS, VPN, SIEM, Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation, Patch Management, I am currently a candidate for Masters of Science in Information Technology - Cybersecurity Concentration ; courses taken include - Digital Forensics, Systems Security and Auditing, Business Data Communications, Information Resource Management, Cloud Computing, Project Management and currently Advanced Cloud Computing, Managing Large Data Sets and Operating Systems Foundations.Protecting Against Ransomware Attacks. I remain informed and knowledgeable, by constantly educating myself about the evolving security challenges in IT and how they affect the organization.