Ryan Cook
Chief Security Officer

Profile

Professional Experience

Education

Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, UT

2016-2022

Bachelor of Science Degree, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Master of Science Degree, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

CompTIA A+ Certificate

CompTIA Project+ Certificate

CompTIA Network+ Certificate

CompTIA Linux+ Certificate

CompTIA Security+ Certificate

LPIC-1 Certificate

ITIL Foundations Certificate

SSCP Certificate

ECES Certificate

ECIH Certificate

CEH Certificate


University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2005-2009

Bachelor of Science Degree, Physics


Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA

2000-2004

Associate of Science Degree, Computer Science

C++ Programming Certificate

VB Programming Certificate

Skills Summary

Information Security: Regulatory Compliance (HIPPA/HITECH/GDPR/PCI-DSS), Framework Compliance (NIST CSF/NIST SP 800-53), Vulnerabilty Detection (Intune/GreenBone/OpenVAS/Tenable), Asset Tracking, Penetration Testing, Systems/Software Hardening, Intrusion Detection/Prevention (Snort/Suricata)
Network Admin: Windows Server 2022 and older, Windows 11 and older, A/D, MS Exchange 2019 and older, MSSQL Server 2019 and older, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, VPN (SonicWall/OpenVPN)
Hardware Familiarity: Dell Workstations/Laptops, Linksys/NetGear/Cisco/TP-Link routers/switches/hubs, cabling, Dell/HP/Xerox printers, Seagate/Samsung/Western Digital HDD/SSD, modems, optical drives, audio, RAM, AMD/Intel processors, motherboards, PBX (Avaya/FreePBX/Asterisk)
O/S Environments: Windows 11 and older, DOS, OS/2, Windows Server 2022 and older, Exchange 2019 and older, Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu/Kali), Neoware, Android / iOS / Windows Phone
Software Familiarity: .NET (Standard/Core) Framework, Adobe CS5 and older, Apache, Citrix, Clonezilla, e-Automate, Ektron CMS, Entity Framework, Hypervisors (Hyper-V / VMWare / VirtualBox), IDE (Visual Studio / Monodevelop / Eclipse / Jetbrains Suite), IIS manager, Kronos, MS Office (Access / Excel / Lync / OneNote / Outlook / PowerPoint / Word), SQL Server / MySQL / PostgreSQL, Remedy, SCM (Git / Mercurial / SVN / VSS), Backup Exec, Endpoint Protection, Imaging (Ghost / GhostCast / Clonezilla), Ticketing (Remedy / TrackIt!)
Programming Languages: HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, CGI/Perl, C/C++/C#, ASP.NET/Blazor, XAML (WPF/Silverlight), VB6/VB.NET, Java, MySQL/MSSQL/PostgreSQL, Ruby/RoR, Python