Andrea Valencia

Andrea is an IT/IT Security, Certified Forensics and Data Loss Prevention Specialist with experience in infrastructure design and implementation, protection, security controls, monitoring, cloud, virtual machines, servers, endpoint management, protection monitoring, as well as maintenance of computers, networks, firewalls, virtual systems, SIEM, DLP, FIM, AIM, EPP, etc. syslog, Splunk, threat intelligence, analytics, virtual systems and databases, as well as several other IT systems and security controls.

Andrea provides forensic support for high-profile, high-tech investigation matters including but not limited to the Sony Network Intrusions, Target Data Breach, Banner Health Networks data breach, as well as evidence identification, spoliation identification, anomaly detection, collections, preservation, processing, review, recovery, and reporting. She is responsible for monitoring and maintaining over one petabyte of static and active data, as well as designs, deploys, and monitors system controls, such as firewall rules, proxies, data loss prevention systems, FIMS, VPN, anomaly and threat detection, as well as policy controls and enforcement, PHI, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, etc. Data Loss Prevention / Data Leakage expertise, system, data, and anomaly detection across SMBs to Enterprise Class environments.

Andrea is SSE/SSE+ certified and certified as an Access Data Certified Examiner. Additionally, she is a Certified Cyber Forensics & Data Loss Prevention Specialist (ACES-DLPS). She received her master's degree in Global Affairs from New York University and her bachelor's degree in International Criminal Justice with a minor in Criminology from John Jay University.