Hi! I'm Bennett, a cyber security professional with a passion for development. I grew up in Baltimore, MD but currently live in Philadelphia, PA. I graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Computing and Security Technology (think IT, but with a focus on security). I'm currently working as a Security Consultant and continuing my learning through AWS Certified and CompTIA. Click the links on the right to learn more about me and my projects or click the links below to view my other profiles.

• PwC
• Unisys
• Drexel
• Leidos
• Certs
• Skills

• Security Consultant

  2021 - Now
  
  
  • Installed, configured, and maintained PingIdentity Platform (ForgeRock Identity and Access Management) in multiple corporate environments, totaling over 100,000 users
  • Designed and implemented automation processes to create and update user profiles in bulk
  • Developed login pages, authentication methods, and API endpoints to allow users to securely and efficiently access resources
  • Preformed data analysis against Active Directory and Splunk to ensure data quality and system performance
  • Customized and managed help desk user management software
• Developer

  2020 - 2021
  
  
  • Led development of a session management REST API service to be used in Stealth core, an intranet encryption software
  • Analyzed requirements and proposed a programming language (NodeJS) and a database (CouchDB)
  • Architected and developed the service to enable efficient and clustered session management
  • Maintained application security with server-side encryption and JWT authorization
  • Presented progress to key stakeholders and leadership during sprint reviews
• Security Analyst

  2019 - 2020
  
  
  • Managed vulnerabilities, performed incident investigations, and secured network traffic for the entire University using Splunk, Tenable.sc, Palo Alto Panorama, and Shodan which led to a significant decrease in compromised accounts
  • Led the University's bug bounty program and investigated hundreds of vulnerabilities, including web app vulnerabilities, SQL injection, and 0-day exploits affecting software used nationwide
  • Conducted major incident investigations and reporting of KPI's to leadership
  • Developed a custom Python service to discover typo-squatters attempting to impersonate Drexel University
  • Created automation solutions to improve workplace productivity and workflow using Microsoft Power Automate and Python
• Network Engineer

  2019
  
  
  • Decompiled and analyzed malware binaries with Radare2 and Ghidra
  • Created an analysis pipeline using Python, Radare2, VirusTotal, and Kafka
  • Tested the effectiveness of exploits on randomized binaries with Metasploit
  • roduced documentation, data analytics, and recommendations that were presented to leadership
• • AWS Developer
  • AWS Security - Specialty
  • AWS Solutions Architect
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • CompTIA Security+
• • Programming Languages: Python, NodeJS, PHP, Web (HTML, CSS, JS), SQL
  • Servers: Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB Apache, MySQL, MongoDB
  • Software: Git, Splunk, ForgeRock, Postman, Wireshark, VMWare Workstation, Tenable.sc, Palo Alto Panorama, Jira, Notion
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Windows Server, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, macOS, Kali
  • Productivity Software: Word, Excel, Power Point, PowerBI, Power Automate, Photoshop, After Effects

• SaferCloud
• LTIJS DynamoDB
• Notion Reoccuring Events
• TypoSquatter Detection
• Permission Manager
• Firewall

• SaferCloud is a web-based security awareness training platform designed for students
• LTIJS DynamoDB is a plugin for LTIJS that enables use of DynamoDB as a database
• Notion Reoccuring Events is an API automation workflow that adds reoccuring events to the calendar view
• TypoSquatter Detection searches newly registered domains names to find potential typo-squatters
• Permission Manager is a linux based client-server program which allows users to request permissions and admins to temporarily grant them
• Firewall is a host based firewall written in python using WinDivert