Mike Sheward

About Mike Sheward

Enthusiastic information security leader, who will do everything in his power to make sure he never has to get on the phone at 2am to tell his leadership team \"a breach happened\", never wants to receive a phone call from Brian Krebs, never wants to offer you two years of free credit monitoring, and offers practical solutions/puts in the effort to make these goals a reality.Experience- builidng, leading & mentoring technical security teams- blackbox penetration testing of web applications & network infrastructure- development of new tools to solve IT security challenges. There is no one size fits all- familiarity with a large selection of penetration testing tools including nmap, Burpsuite, Wireshark, Cain, Metasploit, Putty, Dirbuster and w3af, including what they can and can\'t do in a given penetration testing scenario- creation of policies and procedures- digital forensics investigations, including employee computer misuse cases and incident response- understanding of international laws relating to digital evidence and computer misuse- delivery/creation of IT security training- installing, managing, hardening and security testing a variety of operating systems, including all versions of Windows, Mac OS, Oracle Solaris, Novell Netware, VMware ESX, iOS, Android and various flavors of Linux including Redhat, CentOS, and Ubuntu- installing and configuring a large selection of network infrastructure equipment- PCI-DSS, Gov-Connects CoCo, ISO27001/2, Sarbanes-Oxley.

Experience

1. Founder

   Secure Being

   Jul 2015 — Present

   Secure Being is founded on the premise that convergent technologies have made our lives so much simpler, but in doing so they’ve also opened us up to new methods of harm. To prevent fear from any source winning out and disrupting connected lives, Secure Being’s purpose is to educate, test and help consumers understand information security as it applies to them as human beings.

Skills

• Network Security
• Penetration Testing
• Security
• Information Security
• Firewalls
• Iso 27001
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Security
• Computer Forensics
• Pci Dss
• Cissp
• Linux
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Vulnerability Management
• Vmware
• Web Applications
• Ethical Hacking
• Cisco Technologies
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Intrusion Detection
• Hardening
• Metasploit
• Vmware Esx
• Php
• Python
• Malware Analysis
• Security Audits
• Red Hat Linux
• Technical Writing
• Vendor Management
• Wireshark
• Accessdata Ftk
• Training Delivery
• Web Development
• Check
• Ip Networking
• Nessus
• Blogging
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Cisa