Jason Soto
Director, Information Security And Compliance
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Soto is a cybersecurity leader with 11 years of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native defenses, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence programs for mission-driven organizations. As Director of Information Security and Compliance at UNICEF USA, he has driven adoption of MDR/XDR, SASE, and identity threat detection to shrink dwell time and harden hybrid environments. He combines technical depth—Linux hardening, CIS benchmarks, firewalls and pentesting—with program-level skills in third-party risk management, compliance and security awareness. An active practitioner, Jason contributes hardened Linux automation tooling (JShielder) and holds multiple certifications including Security+, CySA+, CASP+ and MITRE ATT&CK defender credentials. Based in the New York metro area, he’s equally comfortable in command-center SOC work and in translating risk into measurable remediation roadmaps. Notably, his background as a Linux sysadmin and early telecom support gives him rare, cross-stack visibility from infrastructure to executive risk decisions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ethical Hacking, Metasploit Framework, Ethical Hacking, Metasploit Framework at SecurityTubeDeploying OpenStack on Ubuntu IceHouse, Deploying OpenStack on Ubuntu IceHouse at Linux AcademyCNS-205I: Citrix NetScaler 11.0 Essentials and Networking, CNS-205I: Citrix NetScaler 11.0 Essentials and Networking at Citrix Training Multicómputos
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
sh10
linux10
script10
security-hardening10
shell10
hardening10
scripting10
iptables10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Jsitech/JShielder
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Hardening Script for Linux Servers/ Secure LAMP-LEMP Deployer/ CIS Benchmark
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the hardening of a Linux server using shell scripts. Their work involved modifying and creating scripts related to firewall configurations (iptables), setting up bootloader security, and implementing various security measures based on the CIS benchmark. The user also fixed existing scripts and updated templates related to security, demonstrating a focus on system security and hardening practices.
ubuntu1604lamp-deployerbenchmarkintrusion-detectionubuntu1804
Jsitech/relayer
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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