John Ropp

CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER

Role
Cyber Security Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Location
Layton, UT, US
LinkedIn followers
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About John Ropp

An accomplished cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience in managing…

Experience

  1. Cyber Security Engineer

    Northrop Grumman

    Aug 2020 — Present · US

    Provide cybersecurity expertise to a multi-million dollar program as part of the Mission Defense Team• Implement and review requirement decomposition, derivation, and flow down• Implement and review traceability of requirements throughout a spec tree architecture• Support the architecture and design of baked in cybersecurity requirements and protections• Implement and review traceability of requirements to the design & its models• Implement and review the application of cybersecurity profile stereotypes to a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Architecture• Provide cybersecurity system engineering implementation guidance and oversight to technical teams/implementers• Review and Assess stakeholder security objectives, protection needs and concerns, security requirements, and associated verification/validation methods• Implement, review and assess cybersecurity system requirements verification/validation methods• Identify and/or assess vulnerabilities and susceptibility to life cycle disruptions, hazards, and threats• Provide security considerations to inform systems engineering efforts with the objective to reduce errors, flaws, and weakness that may constitute security vulnerability leading to unacceptable asset loss and consequences• Identify, quantify, and evaluate the costs/benefits of security functions and considerations to inform analysis of alternatives, engineering trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions• Author, support and maintain cybersecurity program documentation & RMF package documentation: Cybersecurity Strategies, System Security Plans, Continuous Monitoring Plans, Risk Assessment Report, Security Control Traceability Matrix, Plan Of Actions & Milestones, etc.

Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    Master of Science - MS (incomplete), Cybersecurity

    2018 — 2020

  • University of Arkansas Grantham

    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

    1993 — 1998

  • Transylvania University

    Mathematics, CIS

    1987 — 1989

  • Western Governors University

    Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology Management

    2012 — 2014

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