Susan Verdin
About Susan Verdin
Susan Verdin is a Cyber Security Analyst II with expertise in phishing campaigns and malware analysis. She has a background in system engineering and has worked in various technical roles, currently serving as a security researcher and educator in the field of information security.
Work at Dataprise
Susan Verdin has been employed at Dataprise as a Cyber Security Analyst II since 2019. In this role, she conducts phishing campaigns using KnowBe4 and PII Protect to train end users on recognizing and responding to phishing emails. She also performs threat hunting and writes KQL queries in Azure Sentinel. Her responsibilities include conducting forensic analysis on infected machines to identify and analyze malware, utilizing advanced tools such as Ghidra, PEStudio, and IDA Pro for malware analysis and reverse engineering.
Education and Expertise
Susan Verdin studied at St. Michael the Archangel High School of Baton Rouge from 2012 to 2016. She has a strong passion for malware analysis and reverse engineering, which she actively pursues in her spare time. Susan programs in C and reads Assembly, while also learning additional programming languages. Her expertise extends to utilizing cloud-enabled honeypots for malware research and gathering samples.
Background
Before her current role, Susan Verdin worked at General Informatics as a System Engineer from 2016 to 2019 in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area. She also served as a Helpdesk Technician at St. Michael High School of Baton Rouge from 2014 to 2016. Additionally, she briefly worked at AWC, Inc. as Desktop Support II for four months in 2019. Since 2018, she has also been working as an Independent Consultant, focusing on security research.
Achievements in Cyber Security
In her role as a Cyber Security Analyst II at Dataprise, Susan Verdin has successfully migrated a Nessus server from AWS to Azure, specifically on Linux CentOS 7. She has set up a CAPE Sandbox in Azure on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for enhanced security analysis. Susan teaches information security classes to end users, enhancing their understanding of security threats and improving overall security awareness.