Chris Bassey
Information Security Officer
Ireland
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Top SchoolChris Bassey is an Information Security Officer with eight years of hands-on cybersecurity and software engineering experience, currently securing health information at HIQA in Ireland. He combines SOC operations, DLP, incident response, threat intelligence and hunting with practical expertise in SIEM and EDR platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Splunk, Microsoft Defender and Carbon Black. Chris's background in QA, E2E testing and software engineering gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on vulnerability management, incident remediation and secure system integration across finance, telecoms and government sectors. He has performed malware and phishing analysis using REMnux and X-Force, authored SIEM use cases and led log source onboarding and certificate lifecycle tasks. A postgraduate in cybersecurity and privacy, he also builds security tooling under the moniker CyberNexus, reflecting an interest in bridging defensive operations with engineering-driven automation.
8 years of coding experience
Postgraduate Degree, Cybersecurity for Business, 2nd Class Hons Grade 1, Postgraduate Degree, Cybersecurity for Business, 2nd Class Hons Grade 1 at National University of Ireland, GalwayBEng (Hons), Software Engineering, BEng (Hons), Software Engineering at Athlone Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust, 2.1, Master of Science, Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust, 2.1 at South East Technological University
Github Skills (36)
wazuh10
javascript10
security-hardening10
log-analysis10
infosec10
supply-chain-security10
cybersecurity10
css10
certification10
codebase10
security-automation10
openscap10
math10
security10
owasp10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xrisbarney/phishing-detection-machine-learning-wazuh-scripts
May 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
xrisbarney/schoolapp
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 7 months
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