We worked our way up the old-fashioned way: through hands-on hard work with Systems Administration, Webserver Administration, Network maintenance and configuration, Firewalls, Intrusion detection/Prevention, Security Operations Center design, configuration, and management, and much much more. We dove deep into the protocols, into tcp/ip, vulnerability discovery, analysis, and remediation, then finally into FISMA assessments.

Certifications include:

• Project Management Professional

• Certified Cloud Security Professional

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional

• Information Systems Security Management Professional

• Sun Solaris Administration

• Checkpoint Firewall

• Stonesoft Firewall

• SANS Certified Incident Handler

• SANS Certified Firewall Analyst

• SANS Security Essentials