Enhancing Cyber Capabilities to Protect Against Bad Actors
Challenge
A leading financial service’s cyber team needed , engineering, and development expertise and support.
Solution
Delivered a team of data engineers and full-stack developers to enhance client’s cyber capabilities through:
Providing strategic advisory and stabilization development efforts for the ELK backbone, with nine PBs of critical enterprise cybersecurity log data
Implementing a suite of monitoring tools and alarm integrations, to include tools such as DataDog and PagerDuty
Managing the client’s Kafka, Spark, NiFi, Snowflake, and AI/ML infrastructure
Creating Ansible playbooks for AWS resource automation in support of DevOps
Developing Kubernetes containerization architecture for use with Logstash and Elasticsearch instances
Refactoring Python scripts to support HTTP data transmission and AWS Lambda
Migrating more than 90 legacy Spark data parsing scripts to Logstash parsers
Outcome
Delivered a more robust cyber infrastructure, capacity, and posture by:
Optimizing the resource load, building platform efficiency, and ensuring that enterprise compliance requirements are being followed
Developing and implementing an architecture that will deliver increased efficiencies and resiliency
Improving performance and customer experience through dynamic mapping of data in real time
Improving client’s morale and capacity by providing skilled and experienced resources, including on-call support and overnight watch capability, that leverage a shared service model