Taurean McDade

Looking for job opportunities within cybersecurity/Cloud Security/Devops/SRE roles! 

As a member of the Cloud Security Team, I performed MSV testing on the Darkside, who is responsible for the Colonial pipeline event.  This testing is intended to assess our protection, detection and alerting capabilities to confirm we would be successful should an attack like this occur in IHS. MSV is an attack and breach simulation tool.

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack took place on 5/7/21 when the Colonial Pipeline suffered a malware attack which forced them to shut down their system, resulting in a halt of all the pipelines operations.  This attack affected several of their Information Systems.  Darkside is a ransomware criminal enterprise, who is responsible for this attack.

https://www.fireeye.com/mandiant/security-validation.html

Investigated the AWS footprint, came across many stale DNS entries that are pointing at 3rd party hosting providers that are no longer being used, or sites that are default pages or pointing to sites where the IP address has been re-allocated to other entities and are displaying sites that are in no way related to us. These configurations have made an impact on our Risk Recon scores.

Excited to join The Associated Press as Cloud Security Engineer! 🎉

Ended my journey as Cloud Security Engineer at IHS Markit!

Excited to join IHS Markit as Cloud Security Engineer ! 🎉