Kenneth Kim.

Senior Security Engineer

Procter & Gamble July 2026 – Present

I lead global incident response for manufacturing environments, build tools for security teams, and translate operational risk into practical action.

Kenneth Kim at his University of Texas graduation

Experience

Senior Security Engineer

July 2026 – Present

Procter & Gamble

  • Lead global incident response for manufacturing environments, coordinating investigation, containment, remediation, and recovery.
  • Train L1 and L2 SOC analysts and build tools that improve evidence collection, investigations, and escalation.
  • Own the Site Incident Response Plan and design the headquarters Cyber Lab, including network segmentation, virtualization, and industrial test environments.

Site Cybersecurity Leader

May 2023 – June 2026

Procter & Gamble

  • Led IT and OT/ICS security, compliance, and risk reduction for a 24/7 FDA-regulated manufacturing site.
  • Coached 14 healthcare cybersecurity leaders globally; helped raise average audit scores from 70% to 95%.
  • Investigated and resolved 30+ incidents as first responder, with zero major disruptions to manufacturing.
  • Designed and built NetPulse to make network analysis faster and more accessible across manufacturing sites.
Recognitions
  • CEO Award, 2025
  • Cybersecurity Value Accelerator Award, 2025
  • Rookie of the Year, 2024

Process Engineer Intern

May – August 2022

Procter & Gamble

Improved operations and engineering workflows, reducing planned downtime by 17%.

Research Assistant

August 2020 – May 2021

The University of Texas at Austin

Studied energy-storage materials through molecular simulations on the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputer.

Education

M.S. Cybersecurity

Georgia Institute of Technology

August 2026 GPA 4.0 / 4.0

B.S. Chemical Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin

May 2023

Certifications

  • CompTIA CySA+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
  • AttackIQ MITRE ATT&CK v19

RH-ISAC member

Technical toolkit

Security & investigation

CrowdStrike Falcon, Splunk, LogScale, Elastic, Wireshark, Forti Manager, Suricata, MITRE ATT&CK

Development

Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, Java

Data & automation

Azure Databricks, Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform, LQL

Selected engineering work

NetPulse

I designed and built an application that turns firewall logs into interactive IT, DMZ, and OT network maps. Teams can filter and trace connections down to IPs, services, and firewall policies.

Deployed across 144 manufacturing sites, avoiding $1M in annual costs and reducing network-analysis task time by 93%.

NetPulse demo showing manufacturing VLANs in a network map, colored by security zone
Anonymized manufacturing demo

A few things I’ve written

Curiosity beyond the day job.

Solving a maze with topology

Math & problem-solving

Quantum tunneling and battery life

Materials & energy

A closer look at China’s economy

Economics