Kyler Nats
Cybersecurity Professional | M.S. in MIS

Impact
Enterprise Security Operations
FirstBank | Summer 2025Wrote 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 – PresentLeading 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 – PresentLeading 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.
Technologies & Skills
| Defensive Ops | Splunk, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint Nexus AI, Nessus, Kali Linux |
| Cloud & DevOps | AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions |
| Frameworks | NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, CMMC 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK |
| Data & Code | Elasticsearch, Python, SQL, Linux CLI |
Education
M.S. in Management Information Systems | University of Arizona | Expected May 2026
B.S. in Management Information Systems | University of Arizona | Magna Cum Laude