Hello world! ☕
My name is Christian Taillon
Personal Life
At my core, I am guided by my personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Supported by my best friend and wonderful wife, we navigate the joys of new parenthood with our beautiful baby girl.
Professional Life
Professionally, I serve as a senior member of the IT Security Engineering team at Grand Canyon Education, where my focus lies on enhancing our Detection, Prevention, and Visibility tools to bolster the capabilities of our SOC.
I am an advocate for Threat Intelligence sharing Sigma, YARA, and Snort/Suricata rules within our security community. I’m also a big advocate of Linux as a primary workstation. I lead efforts in SIEM, centralized logging, NDR, EDR, custom logging, integration, detection tools, event correlation, and the development of intelligent, actionable alerts.
Contributions and Advocacy
Beyond my responsibilities at Grand Canyon Education, I contribute as a Solutions Architect at Sports-ISAO. My work here includes pivotal protection efforts for major sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympics. Furthermore, I serve on the board for the Phoenix ISSA Chapter.
I am a core contributor to the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA) where I lead at the Global Watch Center and apply my expertise as a Solutions Engineer working with both open and close source technologies.
Personal Interests
When stepping away from my keyboard, my family and I seek to explore the outdoors. Whether hiking, kayaking, or simply enjoying nature’s beauty.
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Current Roles
In Cybersecurity, we don’t have the luxury of time. Our work demands persistence, proactivity, and collaboration. I believe that you don’t need to work at the same company to be on the same team.
Grand Canyon Education
My day job is as a Threat Response Engineer working out of the Phoenix, Arizona area. I was also responsible for developing a Threat Intelligence and now Threat Hunting program. In this role, I am also responsible for handling most of our Cyber Forensic Analysis.
Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance
I lead a team of threat intel team as a Global Watch Center Lead and Core Contributor for ACTRA. I also lead our Threat Intelligence Exchanges, help develop tools for our operations, and I am an instructor at ACTRA’s Academy.
Phoenix ISSA Chapter
I sit on the Board of Directors for this chapter as the Edcuation Director.
Cyber Resilience Institute
I work on the Cyber Observable Threat Hunting team with Sports-ISAO for our “Popup SOC”.
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