Army National Guard, 17 years of service • Senior sensor platform engineer for major US bank • Former senior intrusion analyst in NTOC • MS Computer Science, published research in critical infrastructure protection • Father of 3 boys • Live in San Antonio My physical persona * I was previously an all-source intelligence officer
beautiful snowflake ‒Part Army CPT ‒Part National Guard DCO-E ‒Part Air National Guard • We’re all volunteer militia • Since 2010, 31 missions & exercises The Team
Security Monitoring focused on: • Security. Passive sensors are one of the most valuable information assets on your network. Keep them to yourself. • Performance. Processing line-rate network data is taxing on your systems. Let's make the most of them. • Analysis. Connect the dots that make sense at collection time to aid human-driven analysis. • Production-Ready. Sometimes you have to spin up a sensor on short notice. If you wait until the last minute, it better only take a minutes.
• Quality is better than Quantity. • Special Operations Forces (SOF) cannot be mass produced. • Competent SOF cannot be created after emergencies occur. • Most Special Operations require non-SOF assistance.