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Trend Micro XDR Remediation
Enterprise Endpoint Detection & Response Tuning
Redesigned endpoint security posture for a major energy services provider — detection tuning, policy redesign, and remediation strategy materially reducing exposure across the fleet.
## Problem
An aging XDR deployment with noisy default policies was burning analyst hours on benign alerts while real lateral movement signals went uninvestigated.
## Approach
Audited every detection group against the environment's actual workload mix. Rebuilt exclusion logic, tightened response actions, and aligned policy bindings to a clean asset taxonomy.
## Fleet triage tooling
Console exports were processed programmatically rather than reviewed by hand — extracting the cloud instance ID embedded in each host name, discarding agents that were healthy or on stopped instances, and ranking what remained by failure mode so that unreachable and erroring agents surfaced ahead of merely absent ones. 353 instances carried agent-health issues at the start of the exercise. Splitting the same output by operating system turned one undifferentiated list into per-platform work packages.
## Outcome
A repeatable triage pipeline replacing manual console review, and a proxy migration executed across 12 operating-system platform groups spanning Windows Server 2008 through 2019 and five Linux distributions.
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FLAGSHIP
Snock →
Autonomous Cloud Security AI Agent
RESEARCH
SpecterHeal →
AI-Assisted Self-Healing Infrastructure
PRODUCTION
Enterprise DDoS Defense →
AWS Shield Advanced & Firewall Manager Automation
PRODUCTION
Hardened GitLab DevSecOps Platform →
Secure CI/CD with Terraform, tfsec, Trivy, SonarQube
PRODUCTION
AWS Incident Response Automation →
Event-Driven Containment with Lambda + CloudWatch
PRODUCTION
SOC Automation & Visualization →
TheHive + Elasticsearch + Grafana + n8n
PRODUCTION
Fortinet SD-WAN Deployment →
Resilient Multi-Site Connectivity
INTERNAL
CTF Training Platform →
Practical Cybersecurity Training Lab
PRODUCTION
Cloud Monitoring & Observability Platform →
Terraform, ECS Fargate, cross-account CloudWatch
DELIVERED
CIS Benchmark & Remediation Program →
Measured posture improvement across a DevOps platform
DELIVERED
Open Banking Auth Flow Load Testing →
k6, mTLS, FAPI/OAuth2 with PAR, browser-driven SCA