”Automation tools improve and speed up security operations because they help to eliminate or avoid the time-consuming parts of the security analyst’s job. Automation handles the bulk efforts and the heavy lifting.” – Nick Tausek – Security Solutions Architect at Swimlane
Source: SWIMLANE
About Nick Tausek:
Nick Tausek is a Security Research Engineer at Swimlane, where he focuses on discovering, building and presenting on different security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) use cases to solve the biggest security operations challenges.
He has extensive experience in varied security domains and specialties with a focus on rapid development and deployment of creative solutions in a multitude of languages and environments.
Before Swimlane, he was an information security analyst within the federal government, NGOs, corporate environments and managed security services providers for over 8 years. In his pre-infosecurity life, Nick held various roles in voice over IP, tech support, web design, and translation services.
He speaks English, Japanese, German, and a little French, and programs mostly in Python, but is comfortable in a handful of other languages as well, including JS, VBA, HTML, CSS and others.