Byron Westbrook

About Byron Westbrook

To secure a leadership role that will allow me to demonstrate and build upon my knowledge of cyber solutions, cyber security, IDS, IPS, vulnerability assessment, and project management within a collaborative environment focused upon achieving a competitive advantage while working towards the company’s mission.

Experience

1. Information Security Manager

   Nimbis Services, Inc

   Sep 2019 — Present · Bowie, MD

   Conducts cybersecurity engineering by generating recommendations, designing, implementing, and transitioning solutions to improve cybersecurity posture, allow for mission assurance, and comply with all DoD policies. Support system integration, system evaluation and analysis, site surveys, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems and architectures. Conduct advanced research and analysis of current systems to develop strategic implementation plans and designs, document and mitigate risks as well as lessons learned, and provide regular updates. Ensure all requirements, customer and functional, are met though system analysis across all levels to include hardware/software, concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Support DevOps team to Research, collaborate, and strategize with vendors and various groups, such as Systems Security Engineering, R&D, Server and Network teams, and provide recommendations on how to leverage emerging technology to improve cybersecurity and mission assurance. Address unusually complex problems with consultative direction through the application of advanced cyber security technologies expertise, security principles, theories, and concepts. Maintain a strong understanding of cybersecurity, networking architecture, servers, systems design, virtual hosts, and configuration management and licensing. Provide expertise to contribute to the security assessment and compliance activities to maintain accreditation to include mitigation and documentation. Analyze and research vulnerabilities to identify risk to provide early warning related to a variety of cyber threats.

Education

• Salisbury University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

  2003 — 2006