John Hicks

John Hicks serves as a Senior MDR Analyst at Blackpoint Cyber, where responsibilities include monitoring security alerts and analyzing potential threats in customer environments. Prior experience encompasses roles as an IT Security Analyst III at TEKsystems, focusing on complex problem resolution and the implementation of an Alerting and Detection Strategy. John held the position of Senior Incident Response Analyst - Shift Lead at both Core4ce and ECS, overseeing cyber defense functions and ensuring adherence to established event triage processes. Prior to that, John contributed to the US Navy as an Intrusion Detection Analyst, monitoring critical national networks, and worked as a Network Security Engineer at UCS, managing Juniper firewall configurations. John's career began with desktop support at ECS, complemented by studies in Marine Sciences at the College of Charleston.