Nikki Sadvand, Cybersecurity Analyst

Cybersecurity Analyst

Elastic SIEM • Sysmon • Zeek • SOC Investigations • Windows Security Audits • MITRE ATT&CK • NIST • SOX ITGC

Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM monitoring, alert triage, endpoint and network telemetry analysis, and SOC investigation. Experience building Elastic SIEM pipelines with Sysmon and Zeek and conducting Windows security assessments aligned with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and SOX ITGC.

Founder & Cybersecurity Consultant | NS Cybersecurity (Dec 2024–Present).

Cybersecurity & IT Support Technician | Sunset Auto Sales (Mar 2019–Present).

Skills & Tools

Elastic SIEM Splunk Sysmon Zeek Windows Event Logs KQL MITRE ATT&CK NIST SOX ITGC Nessus Nmap Wireshark Autopsy FTK Imager Sysinternals Python PowerShell Bash Windows Linux Active Directory Git

Certifications

IBM: Python Basics for Data Science (2024)

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Skills

Security & Compliance

  • SOX ITGC and audit-ready documentation
  • Incident investigation and DFIR fundamentals
  • Risk-based recommendations and remediation tracking

SIEM & Telemetry

  • Elastic SIEM, Filebeat, Kibana, KQL
  • Splunk, SPL (dashboards and triage views)
  • Sysmon, Windows Event Logs, Zeek

Tools

  • Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus/Tenable
  • Autopsy, FTK Imager, Autoruns
  • VirusTotal, Event Viewer, auditpol

Programming

  • Python, PowerShell, Bash
  • Java, R

Education