Ally Troha —
that one security person.
The one who gets pulled into the room when something's on fire, and the one who was already tracking it before anyone asked. I build the processes, automation, and calm that turn a scaling SOC into a predictable one.
About
I fell into security operations and never really left the floor. Since 2018 I've worked across incident response, identity and access management, and vulnerability management — the unglamorous, constant work that keeps an enterprise from becoming a headline.
At Netskope, I helped take the Security Operations Center from a lean, three-person team stretched across every function to a group that automates the equivalent of an extra analyst's workload every week. Now my focus has shifted toward threat and vulnerability management — closing the gap between "we found it" and "we fixed it," at scale.
I'm currently finishing an MBA concentrated in AI strategy, which mostly means I spend evenings arguing with case studies about where AI actually earns its keep in a security program, and where it's just expensive theater.
- Based
- Hanover Park, IL
- Current
- Netskope — Cyber Defense / TVM
- Previously
- Mastercard
- Education
- Northern Kentucky University — Networking, Information Security & Computer Forensics
- Community
- Founder, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) St. Louis Metro — Sept 2022
Case history
PRESENT
Netskope
Joined as the team was standing up an in-house SOC from scratch — onboarding tools, building triage processes, and covering 24/7 alerting with a handful of people. Since then, focus has moved into vulnerability management: closing the loop between detection and remediation across a fast-growing cloud security platform.
Mastercard
Early experience across security operations and IT before moving into cloud-native SOC work.
2018
Northern Kentucky University
Concentration in Networking, Information Security, and Computer Forensics.
What's on the desk
Speaking & community
Founder, WiCyS St. Louis Metro chapter (Sept 2022) — built a local network for women in cybersecurity through mentorship, meetups, and conference visibility.