Donald Murchison
Staff Security Detection Engineer at ServiceNow
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Murchison is a Staff Security Detection Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operationalizing enterprise SIEM and detection platforms, currently building threat detection use cases and cloud-native systems at ServiceNow. He holds an MS in Cybersecurity from NYU Tandon and previously led a zero-downtime migration to Splunk at HPE, automating forwarder deployments with Ansible and saving analysts over 100 hours per week through Risk Based Alerting. Donald pairs hands-on digital forensics and incident response experience with software-engineering practices—authoring custom Splunk commands, tuning frameworks, and semi-automated content pipelines—to turn raw telemetry into actionable detections. He also collaborates with data scientists on novel ML-based detection models and contributes write-ups and tooling to the community via his personal site. A pragmatic problem-solver, he combines deep operational knowledge with a curiosity for research evidenced by competition participation and forensic tool development.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringCalifornia State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (3)
pstree10
splunk8
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
murchisd/murchisd.github.io
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
My github page
Contributions:1 PR, 64 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
jekyll
murchisd/splunk_pstree_app
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Custom Splunk search command to reconstruct a pstree from Sysmon process creation events (EventCode 1)
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 2 months
eventspstreepythonsysmonsplunk
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