Olivia Salamon
London
Summary
Junior cybersecurity professional, recently completing a 14-month placement at a hedge fund, with hands-on experience in incident response, alert triage, threat hunting, and detection engineering. Skilled in SIEM tools , scripting and querying and cloud security . Proficient in automation to streamline security operations and reduce false positives, delivering accurate technical reporting and collaborating effectively with diverse stakeholders while adhering to strict timelines and deadlines and applying industry frameworks.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Cyber Security Incident Response Intern
G-Research
London
07.2024 - 09.2025
- Investigated and triaged security alerts across endpoint, identity, email, and network domains using Elastic Security, Microsoft Defender, and Sentinel; escalated and managed high-severity incidents.
- Led live incident investigations from detection to resolution, coordinating with senior analysts, producing documentation, and conducting post-mortems to improve response processes.
- Developed and refined detection rules for phishing, MFA bypass, brute-force attempts, and endpoint masquerading, improving coverage against common attacker techniques.
- Tuned existing detections to reduce false positives by reviewing recurring patterns, optimising thresholds, and implementing allow-lists.
- Built automation workflows in Tines to streamline daily/weekly review processes and generate structured monthly reports, reducing manual workload.
- Conducted assurance testing and adversary simulations to validate alert logic, identifying blind spots and strengthening rules during migration.
- Delivered purple team findings to CSIRT leadership, and facilitated post-incident brainstorming sessions to enhance detection and response strategies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) -Computer Science with Cyber Security
Univeristy of Kent
Canterbury, Kent 09/2022 - 06/2026
Skills
SIEM & Monitoring: Splunk, Elastic Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Sysmon
Scripting & Querying: Python, SQL, KQL, PowerShell, Bash
Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Windows Server
Forensics & Analysis: Autopsy, Wireshark, Malware Triage, Log Analysis
Incident Response & Detection: Alert Triage, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, False Positive Tuning, Adversary Simulation
Cloud Security: Azure AD, Amazon AWS, Identity & Access Management, Cloud Detection Workflows
Automation: Tines
Version Control & Workflow: Git, Jira, Confluence
Frameworks & Standards: MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP Top 10, NIST CSF, ISO 27001
Technical Reporting: Incident Documentation, Stakeholder Communication
Certification
Security Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1) - 90% score in 24-hour live breach simulation (Oct 2024)
Tines Core Certification- Security automation (Dec 2024)
Languages
English
Native
Polish
Fluent
Timeline
Cyber Security Incident Response Intern
G-Research
07.2024 - 09.2025
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) -Computer Science with Cyber Security
Univeristy of Kent
09/2022 - 06/2026
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