Mitch Fultz

Mitch Fultz has a diverse work experience in the field of technology. Mitch started their career in 2012 as a Technical Support specialist at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, where they provided technical support for professors and students. In 2016, they joined Blackboard as a Technical Support Specialist, troubleshooting web content and DNS configuration issues and providing support to academic professionals.

In 2017, Mitch joined ReliaQuest as a Sr. Tier 2 Splunk/QRadar Security Engineer. Here, they designed, deployed, and managed large clustered Splunk Enterprise environments. Mitch also assessed the customer's security posture and remediated any potential findings.

Since 2019, Mitch has been working at True Zero Technologies, LLC as a PS Splunk Consultant/Security Engineer. In this role, they architect, deploys, and maintains large Splunk Enterprise Security environments for government agency cybersecurity. Mitch integrates Cribl for efficient data routing and transformation and configures multi-site, high-availability security environments in Splunk. Mitch also applies the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to improve threat detection capabilities in Splunk and Cribl.

Overall, Mitch has gained expertise in technical support, security engineering, and Splunk administration throughout their career.

Mitch Fultz obtained a degree in Security and Risk Analysis with a focus on Information and Cyber Security from Penn State University, which they attended from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, they attended Carnegie Mellon University from 2011 to 2013, where they studied Information Systems. In addition to their formal education, Mitch has obtained various certifications related to cybersecurity and data analysis. These certifications include Foundations of Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK from AttackIQ in March 2021, Splunk Accredited ES Implementation, Splunk Accredited Sales Engineer I, and Splunk Accredited Sales Engineer II from Splunk in April 2023, Level 1: Cribl Certified Observability Engineer (CCOE) Stream User and Level 2: Cribl Certified Observability Engineer (CCOE) Stream Admin from Cribl in August 2022, Splunk Core Certified Consultant in October 2020, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect in August 2019, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin in February 2019, Splunk Core Certified Power User in January 2019, and Splunk Core Certified User in January 2019.