Caleb Mason

Driven cybersecurity professional with a genuine passion for technology, problem-solving, and continuous learning across both security and IT disciplines. Experienced in security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management, with a strong desire to grow into new challenges in cyber or IT roles. Proficient with CrowdStrike, IronScales, and the full Rapid7 suite; adaptable across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Holds

CompTIA Security+ and a B.S. in Cybersecurity & Computer Science. Actively maintaining industry knowledge through ongoing follow-up of cybersecurity news, threat trends, and emerging developments.

Cybersecurity Operations Associate - Vital Energy

(2024-05 - 2025-06)

• Reduced phishing susceptibility across a sub-500-person org by running IronScales simulation campaigns, achieving a measurable drop in click rates tracked pre- and post-campaign.
• Identified and contained a confirmed security incident via CrowdStrike Falcon, escalating through IR playbooks and supporting remediation that stopped lateral movement.
• Partnered with cloud engineers to deploy CrowdStrike and Rapid7 agents to macOS endpoints during the organization's first Mac rollout, ensuring consistent EDR and vulnerability coverage across all platforms.
• Leveraged the full Rapid7 suite — InsightVM, MDR, Exposure Command, and Threat Command (DRP) — to research CVEs, monitor the attack surface, and deliver prioritized remediation recommendations and vulnerability reports to IT personnel.
• Triaged 10–50 alerts per week across MDR, EDR, and email platforms using VirusTotal for IOC analysis; ticketed IT via EasyVista for patch requests, CrowdStrike USB exclusions, email unblocking, account lockouts, password resets, and geolocation-based login investigations.
• Built and maintained security KPI dashboards tracking alert volume, threat trends, and remediation progress to support data-driven reporting across the security team.
• Tracked endpoint compliance and KB update adoption across the device fleet using SCCM reports; utilized Microsoft Intune to monitor agent deployment status and patch compliance across all managed laptops following the organization's transition to Intune.

B.S. - Cybersecurity & Computer Science - Northeastern State University (2021-01 - 2023-12)

A.S. - Computer Information Systems - Tulsa Community College (2018-08 - 2020-12)