Ken Underhill, CCSK

Underground Ops

Investor

EC-Council

Ethical Hacking Advisory Board
https://www.eccouncil.org/ceh-advisory-board/

Ethical Hacking Advisory Board Member (Volunteer)

EnterpriseKC

I sit on the advisory board for the Cyber Range, which is built to support cybersecurity talent development in the Kansas City area.

Heartland Cyber Range (HCR) Advisory Board (Volunteer Position)

Breaking Barriers Women in Cybersecurity (BBWIC)

An amazing group of women creating a safe place for other women to start and grow their cybersecurity career.

Advisory Board Member (Volunteer)

Whole Cyber Human Initiative

Board Advisor (Volunteer)

Not Disclosed...

I've been around the block and learned from many failures and a few wins.

Entrepreneur

Cyber Life

Successful exit.

Cyber Life is a cybersecurity training company focused on helping SMBs.

About the television show:
I wanted a platform where cybersecurity professionals could share their voice without biased algorithms, which is why the Cyber Life television show was created.  

After a successful 4 season run of the Cyber Life television show (with about 2.1 million monthly viewers), we have decided to focus the Cyber Life team on other projects but the show episodes will now live on the YouTube channel linked below. 

Watch the Cyber Life television show at the links below:
www.CyberLife.TV
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CyberLifeTV

Co-Founder (Exited)

RapidAscent

I led the initial build of the RA program for an immersive hands-on program, with custom labs that would lead to an OTJ apprenticeship for career changers.  Students with no prior technical experience were hacking and defending network infrastructure efficiently within the first week of the program that was built.  I then brought in another experienced cybersecurity professional to lead the program moving forward, so I could retire again.  

From what I heard, the program was adjusted to more of an entry level Sec+ based program after I left, based on client demand, and the program received funding through the Biden administration grant for cybersecurity to now offer free tuition for the program to applicants.

I'm looking forward to RA continuing to expand the program to help more deserving career changers and veterans get their start in cybersecurity careers.  I'm hopeful that expansion of the program and funding will allow RA the opportunity to increase diversity of its executive team.

Vice President

Cybrary

I built cybersecurity courses for digital forensics, pen testing, and more.  Over 270K students still taking my courses last I knew.

Master Instructor

I help businesses have better control over infrastructure security and development costs with the Nexus | DevSecOps | Cyber Security

I help people learn cybersecurity knowledge and skills.

Free Cybersecurity Training and career videos over on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/c/CyberLifeTV

I've been featured in Forbes, Reader's Digest, Medium, Tech Republic, Fox, NBC, Dark Reading, Voyage Houston Magazine, MSN Money, and many more places over the years.

Multi-award winning and international best selling author of Hack the Cybersecurity Interview.

Free Cybersecurity Training and career videos over on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/c/CyberLifeTV

Listen to the Cyber Life Podcast to hear from industry experts.

Apple
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber-life/id1469224570

Amazon  
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/aeea479e-561e-4d12-911b-5e1b717e8887/cyber-life

iHeart Radio
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-cyber-life-122068176/

Advisory Board Member

Swift

Red Team Operations:
- Assist in establishing, operating and maintaining SWIFT’s Red Team infrastructure for supporting activities as well as helping other internal teams test and customize security tools and infrastructure for operations
Penetration Testing:
- Identify required security improvements (findings) and develop briefings to other operational teams as required.
- Provide penetration testing, ethical hacking and red teaming practices covering the full attack life cycle (from reconnaissance, delivery, exploitation, command and control, to exfiltration).
Security Research:
- Assist with and provide expertise in developing campaigns and operational activities running on a wide variety of systems; Windows, LINUX, Oracle, lOS,etc.
Purple Teaming: 
- Work closely with Blue Team and development teams in creating courses of action (COAs) to mitigate existing threats and vulnerabilities.

Red Team Operator

Blacks in Cybersecurity

Blacks In Cybersecurity™ is a meetup group and conference series to help highlight and elevate the Black community in Cybersecurity.  

The official mission of Blacks In Cybersecurity™ (BIC) is to encourage the participation of the Black community in Cybersecurity. 

BIC seeks to conduct a premier conference series and community emphasizing our influence and participation in Cybersecurity and STEM.

Founder & Executive Director (CEO)

Accenture Federal Services

Penetration Tester (June 2022 - Present)
- Assist with reconnaissance, threat modeling, vulnerability identification, authorized exploitation, and post-exploitation cleanup.
- Plan, communicate, coordinate and perform penetration tests and security assessments at application, system and enterprise levels.
-  Simulate tactics, techniques, and procedures used by advanced cyber threat actors.
-  Information security research to remain current on emerging technology trends and develop exploits.

DevSecOps Engineer (January 2022 - June 2022)
-Oversee the project’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
-Build and configure delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools.
-Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.

Security Administrator/System Administrator (March 2019 - January 2022)
-Monitor network traffic, perform risk assessment, audit machines and their software, update software on the latest security patches, and ensure that each network resource has the proper defenses. 
-Configuring and supporting security tools (firewalls, antivirus, and IDS)
-Auditing/Implementing security policies
-Analyzing and establishing security requirements.
-Providing technical security advice, consulting with staff, managers and executives on best practices.
-Identifying threats and working on steps to defend against them.
-Training employees in security awareness/procedures.
-Responsible for updating the system, resolving issues, and setting up any new users.

System Administrator (December 2018 - Present):
-Utilizing Linux/Unix,/RHEL System Administration, Shell Scripting, Bash Scripting, Python.
-Updating Unix OS patches, reviewing logs, system documentation, and project requirements.
-Serving on team that actively manages server deployment and allocation of virtual server capacity.
-Designing and developing technology solutions that meet client requirements, from analysis to implementation.

Senior Analyst

Previous Role: Junior System Administrator (January 2017 - December 2018)/ Sole System Administrator (December 2018 - March 2019)
-Utilizing Linux/Unix,/RHEL System Administration, Shell Scripting, Bash Scripting, Python.
-Updating Unix OS patches, reviewing logs, system documentation, and project requirements.
-Serving on team that actively manages server deployment and allocation of virtual server capacity.
-Designing and developing technology solutions that meet client requirements, from analysis to implementation.

Analyst

Delaware State University

The Wireless Embedded Device Security Laboratory focuses on topics in Cybersecurity and Information Security primarily in working with devices and implementing projects focusing on both offense and defense (utilizing practical applications as well as theory).

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Wireless Embedded Device Security Laboratory

Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable)

In this opportunity, I took an active approach in learning about and working with the Telephony/IVR system at Time Warner Cable. 

This hands on opportunity allowed practice in multiple languages (Python,Node.js,HTML,JavaScript,jQuery,SQL) to aid in the creation of working systems for customer service as well as local data management for efficient logistics.

Junior Developer Intern

-Facilitate gathering of data for various projects and reports; write summaries of project  findings.
-Manage, collect, and analyze data from RGB-D camera for “Magic Mirror” Project.

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Laboratory for Intelligent Perceptual Systems

-Provide technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware.
-Respond to queries either in person or over the phone.Respond to email messages for customers seeking help.Maintain daily performance of computer systems;Ask questions to determine nature of problem.;Walk customer through problem-solving process.; Install, modify, and repair computer hardware and software;Clean up computers.Run diagnostic programs to resolve problems.
-Resolve technical problems.Follow up with customers to ensure issue has been resolved.Run reports to determine malfunctions that continue to occur.

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