Hydroficient Externship via Extern
I completed the Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship and am building practical experience in IoT security as I shape my career.
Work samples and outcomes from my early experience, including the Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship, showing practical IoT security tasks and learning.
Developed an AppleScript solution to automate the display of Splunk dashboards across ten large screens, enabling real-time threat monitoring and significantly reducing manual intervention. Integrated the automation into SOC workflows, enhancing operational efficiency and improving incident response processes.
Designed and implemented a dynamic dashboard to visualize and monitor key security metrics across multiple platforms, including CrowdStrike, Box, Jira, and KnowBe4, ensuring real-time insights for enhanced decision-making and threat management.
I completed the Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship and am building practical experience in IoT security as I shape my career.
I am Maham Shariff. I have some work experience and I completed the Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship. I am exploring my next steps as I move from early experience toward a defined career path.
Externships
Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship
Hydroficient
Experience
Technical Project Manager/ Operations Specialist
Terminus Payments, LLC · August 2026 – Present
AI Trainer
Handshake · December 2025 – April 2026
Data Reporting Analyst
Tabularius Group, LLC · September 2025 – December 2025
Security Operations Center Intern (ISOC)
Georgia Tech Research Institute · May 2024 – December 2024
Cybersecurity Intern/ IT Trainee
Department of Homeland Security Headquarters · June 2023 – September 2023
Data Entry Specialist/ HR and Payroll Administrative Assistant
Kimco Facility Services, LLC · October 2021 – March 2022
Education
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity, Coles College of Business · Class of 2024
Skills
Developed an AppleScript solution to automate the display of Splunk dashboards across ten large screens, enabling real-time threat monitoring and significantly reducing manual intervention. Integrated the automation into SOC workflows, enhancing operational efficiency and improving incident response processes.
Designed and implemented a dynamic dashboard to visualize and monitor key security metrics across multiple platforms, including CrowdStrike, Box, Jira, and KnowBe4, ensuring real-time insights for enhanced decision-making and threat management.
Developed a Splunk dashboard using SPL to prioritize critical and high vulnerabilities, incorporating trend graphs and remediation steps for CVEs based on Tenable data and lookup tables for enhanced security response time.
Developed a custom Jira dashboard to track unresolved tickets over time, incorporating filters for metrics such as average number of unresolved tickets, a created vs. resolved graph, events with long-standing tickets, and user-specific unresolved ticket data for improved operational insight.