ABOUT ME

What's up everybody, I’m Lorenzo Taylor, a U.S. Air Force veteran and cybersecurity professional with 7 years of experience spanning systems administration and security analysis. I have hands-on exposure to enterprise infrastructure, access control, and security operations in highly regulated environments. I'm currently a Senior Information System Security Officer at Obsidian Global, LLC, where I support organizations in implementing secure, scalable security programs. Lately, my focus has been on modern cloud security and identity-driven controls, including identity and access management, risk-based access enforcement, and least-privilege design.

I built this page as part of the Cloud Resume Challenge.

Certifications

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - (ISC)²

October 2025

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

July 2024

CompTIA Security+

April 2023

ITIL 4 Foundation

September 2022

Work

Obsidian Global, LLC

Senior Information System Security Officer • November 2023 - Present

  • Led cloud authorization and compliance efforts for 40+ SaaS and 15+ systems by assessing vendor security controls, validating evidence against NIST 800-53/FedRAMP, reporting enterprise risk to leadership, and improving authorization throughput and supply-chain visibility.
  • Strengthened continuous monitoring and vulnerability management by coordinating remediation with system owners and SMEs, tracking closure of 100+ findings, producing monthly risk and compliance reports, and reducing review and evidence-collection cycle time by ~25–30%.
  • Drove cloud security operations and readiness by authoring and maintaining SSPs, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring artifacts, and leading an annual cloud incident response exercise aligned to BIA recovery objectives (30-day RPO), resulting in successful audits with zero major findings.

    • United States Air Force

    System Administrator | Information System Security Engineer • May 2019 - August 2020

  • Managed identity and access control at scale for 1,200+ users across multi-domain Windows environments, administering AD groups, RBAC, and GPOs to enforce least-privilege access and identity governance aligned with DoD security standards and cloud-ready IAM practices.
  • Automated identity lifecycle and access governance using PowerShell to streamline provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, and compliance reporting, cutting onboarding time by 50%, reducing manual oversight by 40%, and improving audit traceability for 100+ mission systems.
  • Strengthened identity security operations and readiness by conducting quarterly entitlement audits, collaborating on STIG/DISA hardening, supporting identity-related incident response and change management, and authoring standardized IAM procedures—reducing privilege-related findings by ~30% and recurring audit issues by 25%.

    • Cloud Projects

    Cloud Resume Challenge

    Project Completed to Compliment AZ-900 Certification• July 2024

  • Configured Azure Blob Storage Account for static website hosting.
  • Deployed an Azure Function that processes HTTP requests to retrieve and increment a visitor counter stored in Azure Cosmos DB.
  • Set up Azure Application Insights to monitor and analyze website performance metrics.
  • Utilized Azure Key Vault to manage and safeguard secrets and keys.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to automate the deployment process and any future updates.