Joseph Ellis Funderburk

Binary Defense Feb 2026 - Present

SOC Analyst

• Triaged 70+ daily endpoint and cloud alerts across 14+ diverse customer environments, maintaining an average MTTR of 30 minutes for high-priority incidents.
• Identified potential security incidents and threats, determined scope of compromise, performed threat hunting, and provided containment and remediation recommendations for clients.
• Evaluated and reverse engineer malware through static and dynamic analysis to determine threat level and provide actionable intelligence for incident response
• Escalated detailed incident reports within the ServiceNow ticketing system, ensuring a seamless handoff for Tier 2 & 3, providing tuning recommendations based on findings.
• Communicated critical security findings to client stakeholders, translating complex technical data into clear,actionable remediation steps.

LastPass May 2024 - Feb 2026

Security Engineer

• Monitored SIEM and EDR alerts to perform threat response using Defender XDR, Sentinel & Wiz maintaining a 99% SLA compliance rate relating to Email, Cloud, and Endpoint Security alerts.
• Supported the implementation of Azure Conditional Access policies, IAM hardening, and Zero Trust frameworks and vet AI-assisted tools for the organization
• Identified and remediated 45 critical misconfigurations across Azure production environments, improving the overall cloud security posture by 15%.
• Prevented potential intrusions by initiating swift containment actions and coordinating with cross-functional teams to prevent critical company data loss during active incident response cycles.
• Managed end-to-end vulnerability remediation using Qualys, achieving a 35% reduction in attack surface.
• Coordinated with Detection Engineering to tune & improve KQL-based detections
• Documented and reported comprehensive post-incident reviews and translate complex technical risks in centralized case management systems for senior stakeholders; covering incident scope, investigative findings, remediation and response updates while producing clear and detailed technical reports.

Safety NetAccess Oct 2023 - May 2024

Telecommunication Engineer

• Built, programmed, troubleshot, and maintained on-premises and AWS cloud-based PBX systems for over 1,200 sites.
• Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation.

SANS Technology Institute

Applied Cybersecurity Technical Program - 2025

Guilford Technical Community College

Associate's in Information Technology - 2020