John Hally

About John Hally

IT Professional with 25+ years broad range experience in 24/7/365 high transaction on-premise and cloud environments. Considerable experience in:Information Security architecture, engineering and managementUnix/Linux/Windows architecture and administrationLAN/WAN architecturesPerformance Engineering StorageDatacenter planning/managementPublic, Private, and Hybrid CloudSpecialties: Information Security:Security Architecture DesignCheckpoint Firewalls, Threat Emulation/Extraction, VSXImperva Web Application FirewallsWeb Application Security Assessment (Acunetix, Burpsuite, OWASP Zap)Intrusion Analysis, IDS/IPS (Checkpoint, Snort)Threat Prevention, Emulation, Management (Checkpoint)Vulnerability Management (Tenable Nessus, Rapid7)Auditing, Assessment, and Regulatory Compliance (PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA)Security Controls, Security Frameworks (NIST, CIS CSC, ISO 27001/27002)Incident HandlingForensics Security Policy Review/Analysis/CreationSecurity AwarenessThreat IntelligencePublic, Private and Hybrid Cloud Security (AWS, Azure)SANS Security Certifications and TrainingSEC401 Security Essentials - GSEC-GoldSEC504 Incident Handling - GCIH-GoldSEC503 Intrusion Detection GCIA-GoldFOR508 Forensics - GCFA SilverSEC505 Windows -GCWN - SilverSEC566 Penetration Testing - GPEN - SilverSEC511 Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations - GMON - SilverSEC545 Cloud Security Architecture and Operations FOR578 Cyber Threat IntelligenceMGT525 Project Management - PMI TrainingAWS:Architecting In AWSAWS Essentials Azure:AZ100 - Infrastructure and Deployment - CertifiedAZ101 - Integration and SecurityMiscellaneous:Checkpoint Administration and Expert trainingImperva Web Application Firewall Administration/Web Application Security Training

Experience

1. Research Faculty

   Sans Technology Institute

   Feb 2021 — Present

   Improve the quality of and oversee student research papers. Formalize graduate-level rigor of the research process and outcomes. Ensure student research work products are widely useful to the communities served.

Education

• University of Massachusetts Lowell

  Bachelor of Science

  1988 — 1992

• SANS Institute of Technology

  Masters of Science

  2007 — 2012

Skills

• Giac
• Disaster Recovery
• Computer Forensics
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Vmware
• Cisco Nexus
• Information Security Management
• Nessus
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Gcih
• Checkpoint
• Networking
• Checkpoint Security
• Network Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Incident Handling
• Gcwn
• Security Policy Development
• Incident Response
• Ids
• Information Security
• Computer Security
• Security Policy
• Linux
• Data Center
• Firewalls
• Intrusion Detection
• Security Architecture Design
• F5 Bigip
• Gpen
• Pci Dss
• Penetration Testing
• Security
• Security Awareness
• Application Security
• Virtualization
• Web Application Security
• Ips