Kyler Nats

Cybersecurity Professional | M.S. in MIS

Kyler Nats
I specialize in bridging the gap between technical defense and business resilience. By aligning infrastructure deployment with organizational risk, I secure critical assets while maintaining the agility needed for innovation. I leverage a proactive break-fix methodology to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities before they become business liabilities, ensuring long-term system integrity and compliance.

Enterprise Security Operations

FirstBank | Summer 2025

Wrote comprehensive technical documentation for core security alerts and investigation workflows. This initiative is projected to reduce future analyst training and development time by 30%, ensuring a consistent and rapid response across the SOC.

Led the integration of Nexus AI within Proofpoint. By transitioning from static, rule-based filtering to an AI-learned response model, I automated a historically manual triage process, saving analysts 25% of their weekly investigation time.

Investigated alerts across a network of 2,500+ employees using Splunk and CrowdStrike, maintaining zero operational downtime by identifying risks before they escalated into incidents.

Risk Management & Compliance

University of Arizona, McKeever Lab | 2025 – Present

Leading a comprehensive Information Security Risk Management (RMaP) project using the NIST 800-53 framework. This involves performing a gap analysis and implementing security controls within the UASecure platform.

Established a hardened infrastructure that allows for federal research data to be processed with 100% adherence to university and grant-mandated security standards, moving beyond check-box compliance to functional security.

Data Analytics & Strategic Growth

UA Baseball Strategic Consultant | 2025 – Present

Leading a team to process 14M+ data points, identifying key awareness leakages in the current marketing funnel to scale fan attendance and organizational revenue through advanced data modeling.

Developed a data-driven strategy projected to increase organization revenue by 10% and scale attendance potential by 20% through targeted engagement and funnel optimization.

Defensive OpsSplunk, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint Nexus AI, Nessus, Kali Linux
Cloud & DevOpsAWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
FrameworksNIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, CMMC 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK
Data & CodeElasticsearch, Python, SQL, Linux CLI

M.S. in Management Information Systems | University of Arizona | Expected May 2026

B.S. in Management Information Systems | University of Arizona | Magna Cum Laude