Daren Darrow
Senior Security Engineer at Salesforce
- Buffalo, NY region
ISACA
Information Systems Audit and Control Association - Silver Level Delegate
Daren Darrow
Senior Security Engineer at Salesforce
- Buffalo, NY region
Work experience
2019Present
Senior Security Engineer
Salesforce
20182019
Senior Security Engineer
Joyent
- Architect, develop and document industry best practices to support company initiatives while meeting performance and availability requirements.
- Evaluate logging metrics such as EPS; minimum, average and maximum event size; and retention timeframe to calculate computing and storage requirements for SIEM selection and licensing.
- Design, develop, and implement workload scheduling and orchestration with Hashicorp Nomad for use in SIEM projects.
- Develop reliable, reusable Hashicorp Terraform plans for deploying applications and services.
- Write security policies for the organization, both "General Use" and "Policy and Standards."
- Rebuilt internal and external vulnerability scanning program and processes.
- Continuously assesses System and Network Architectures to ensure they are adhering to best security practices.
- Research new security technologies and adopt suitable best practices to solve industry obstacles and security threats.
- Monitor the external threat environment and information security trends internal and keeps business leadership informed about information security-related issues and activities potentially affecting the organization.
- Oversees and mentors security engineering team to deploy and maintain internal security systems such as IDS/IPS, SIEM, DLP, VPN, WAF, and vulnerability scanners.
20152018
Information Security Analyst/Engineer
CBS Interactive
- Design and management of enterprise cryptography and key management systems
- Select and operate enterprise-wide vulnerability scanning and central logging platform
- Assist with Web application testing
- Implement and monitor network security systems (Firewalls, IDS, Web application Firewalls)
- Coordinate efforts to standardize network design documents and practices within networking team
- Improve upon the incident response program and coordinate incident response activities
- Provide approvals for network related security changes
- Assist with assessments as it relates to PCI, SB1386, and other local, state, and federal regulations
- Evangelize security across network engineering, development, and key groups within the enterprise
- Evaluate network design and make recommendations on how to improve architecture at Layer 2 and 3 with consideration to network security models
- Design, implement and manage remote access solutions for employees, contractors and vendors
20142015
Systems Engineer
CBS Interactive
- Oversee design and maintenance of systems
- Analyze business units’ needs
- Design and implement systems to meet business needs
- Create documentation and push organization toward use of best practices
20102014
NOC Support Specialist
CBS Interactive
- Monitor systems and respond to issues and support requests
- Support the Unix and Windows system administrators; perform administrative tasks
- Create and update documentation related to NOC tasks
20082010
Copy Editor
CBS Interactive / CNET Reviews
- Review consumer products and write reviews and blogs
- Edit reviews and blogs for Chicago style, grammar errors
20062008
Designer and Copy Editor
Bay Area News Group
- Edit news copy for Associated Press style and grammar
- Write descriptive, compelling headlines and summaries
- Produce quality news page designs on deadline
20052005
Designer, Copy Editor
The Daily O'Collegian
- Edit articles for Associated Press style and grammar
- Write descriptive and compelling headlines; hard news and features stories
20032004
Medical Claims Specialist
Humana Insurance Company
- Process medical insurance claims
- Create training documentation for EDS Metavance system
- Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations including ERISA and HIPAA
19982003
Administration and support
CWIS Internet Services
- Perform on-site server and network maintenance
- Provision ADSL, dial-up, Web hosting accounts
19961999
Network Administrator
McCurtain Public Schools
- Configure Cisco routers and switches
- Install and maintain student and faculty Windows-based desktops