Mark B.

About

Mark J. Mark B. is a cybersecurity professional with expertise in threat intelligence, security risk and compliance, and security testing. He is a published analyst at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and the founder and editor of The Moloch, an independent threat intelligence research publication. Mark is also a U.S. Army veteran with a background spanning SIEM administration, incident response, ISO 27001 policy development, OSINT, and vulnerability assessment.

Specialties

• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Governance & Compliance
• Privacy & Data Protection
• SOC Analyst
• Web Application Testing

Skills

• SIEM administration (Wazuh, The Hive, Security Onion)
• alert triage and investigation
• detection rule development
• threat hunting
• incident response
• IOC analysis
• Adversary TTP profiling
• MITRE ATT&CK mapping
• OSINT
• dark web monitoring

49 skills in total

Licenses & Certifications

• ISC² CC

  ISC²

  Issued Oct 2023 · Expires Oct 2026

• Microsoft AZ-900

  Microsoft

  Issued May 2026

• CompTIA Security+

  CompTIA

  Issued Mar 2024 · Expires Jul 2030

5 certifications in total

Experience

• Security Risk & Compliance Contractor

  Freudiger IT Security B.V.

  Jan 2025 — Present

  Netherlands

• Contributing Analyst — Tech Sovereignty & Cyber Security

  New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy

  Jan 2025 — Jan 2026

  Washington, D.C. (Remote)

• Information Security Officer

  Dyami Security Intelligence

  Jan 2023 — Jan 2025

  Utrecht, Netherlands

Education

• Western Governors University

  Master of Science, Cybersecurity & Information Assurance

  Sep 2023 — Dec 2024

• Webster University Leiden

  Master of Arts, International Relations & Security Studies

  Jan 2025 — Jan 2026

3 education entries in total

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