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Ronen Jaffa

Cyber Security Specialist
Tel Aviv

Summary

Cybersecurity specialist with experience in a wide range of fields, looking to continue and advance in the field of cyber defense.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages

Work History

Security Engineer

Cato Networks
05.2023 - Current
  • Research and assess emerging threats and vulnerabilities
  • Develop unique network fingerprints for prevention and analysis purposes
  • Analyze bulk network traffic in order to create reliable detection for network threats and find malicious activity

Penetration Tester

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF, Tel Aviv
02.2022 - 04.2023
  • Analyzing and testing security measures to assess effectiveness
  • Actively perform offensive tests and design and implement security solutions according to findings
  • Assessment of SOC and DFIR team by performing adversary simulations
  • Instruction of basic offensive security concepts in order to help better understanding of defensive measures

This position is a part time job. As part of being in charge of the SOC and DFIR teams, I took an active role in assessing the teams work and performance using various offensive techniques.

Cyber Security Team Lead

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF
06.2021 - 04.2023
  • In charge of GRC
  • Training of new team members
  • Project Management
  • Head of SOC Team
  • DFIR Management
  • Integration of cybersecurity systems
  • NAC governance and management
  • Firewall management
  • Development of IR protocols
  • Management and development of HBSS

This position can be separated in to two categories: the technical management of the work (projects, assistance and guidance) and the management of soldiers.

Under my leadership, the team grew from 3 security practitioners and analysts to 8, and is expected to expand even further.

Cybersecurity Analyst

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF
08.2020 - 06.2021
  • SOC Analyst
  • Incident Response and Mitigation
  • Development and maintenance of existing cybersecurity infrastructure
  • Enforcement of organizations security policies
  • Patch management

Education

Diploma - Red Team Security (Offensive)

John Bryce
Tel Aviv
02.2022 - 08.2022

High School Diploma -

Ironi Alef School of Arts
Tel Aviv
09.2016 - 07.2020

Skills

Analysis using big-data technologies

Scripting

Network protocols

Autodidact

Intrusion detection and prevention

Accomplishments

  • Award of appreciation for work as Cyber Defense Team Lead, issued by the commander of the IDF’s Operations Division.
  • Battalion’s Outstanding Soldier award

Certification

Cyber Security Practitioner (Israel National Cyber Directorate)

Timeline

Security Engineer

Cato Networks
05.2023 - Current

Penetration Tester

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF, Tel Aviv
02.2022 - 04.2023

Diploma - Red Team Security (Offensive)

John Bryce
02.2022 - 08.2022

Cyber Security Team Lead

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF
06.2021 - 04.2023

Cyber Security Practitioner (Israel National Cyber Directorate)

01-2021

Cybersecurity Analyst

J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF
08.2020 - 06.2021

High School Diploma -

Ironi Alef School of Arts
09.2016 - 07.2020
Ronen JaffaCyber Security Specialist