Jay Hayward
Cyber Threat Analyst
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJay Hayward is a Cyber Threat Analyst with eight years of hands-on cybersecurity experience and over five years in professional roles, currently focused on threat analysis and incident response at Optiv. He has a strong background in malware analysis and reverse engineering from his time tuning antivirus detections at OpenText, and has performed purple-team exercises and penetration testing for Staples' corporate environments. A CU Boulder Computer Science graduate who also studied biochemistry, Jay combines technical depth with a methodical, investigative approach to uncovering evasive threats across endpoints and servers. Known for collaborating tightly with cross-functional teams, he emphasizes practical remediation and security standards that scale across organizations. An early collegiate cyber defense competitor, he brings battlefield-tested defensive tactics to enterprise incident response.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github contributions (5)
JayHayward/Resume
Aug 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
JayHayward/Steganography-Project
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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