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

University at Albany Massry School of Business

Joining the Department of Information Security and Digital Forensics. I am responsible for teaching, research, and service for my employer. In Fall 2025, I am teaching two 3-credit courses 
~ B FOR 305: Cyber Defense
~ B FOR 412: Cyber Incident Response and Penetrating Testing

My area of research is cybersecurity competitions (like Capture the Flag), Gamification of Higher Education, and Workforce Development.

Assistant Professor

Purdue University

Worked at the Office of the Dean with Dr. Marcus Rogers, where my responsibilities included: 

Research and Reporting
1. Conducting research related to academic policies, initiatives, or strategic goals.
2. Preparing reports, summaries, or presentations for the Associate Dean.
3. Analyzing institutional data to support decision-making processes.

Liaison Duties
1. Acting as a liaison between the Dean’s office and other departments or external entities.
2. Gathering information from faculty, staff, or students as needed.

Special Projects
1. Supporting strategic initiatives led by the Associate Dean, such as diversity and inclusion programs.
2. Managing Faculty hiring and Faculty Mentoring programs.

Graduate Research Assistant

Purdue cyberTAP

Began by 2nd term at CyberTAP as a Research Assistant, the responsibilities included 

•Trained and evaluated 350 business professionals on niche cybersecurity domains such as Cyber Forensics, Identity & Access Management, and Enterprise Security Concepts modules.
•Designed and delivered lectures/labs for up to 2000 employees on malware analysis, threat hunting, web applications, networking, vulnerability assessment, cryptography, buffer overflow, and Linux fundamentals.

Allison Transmission

Information Technology Security Analyst Intern

Publication: AI-Enabled Community Supervision for Criminal Justice Services
Grant Funded By: United States Department of Justice (DOJ)

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Purdue Chapter

~Made our chapter win the "Best Student Chapter Award 2022" under my supervision for 1 and a half years.
~Lead the WiCyS Student Chapter and manage its activities.
~Ensure compliance of the WiCyS Student Chapter members with the policies and procedures of Purdue University and these bylaws

President

• Responsible for elevating WiCys members in their engagement and activities at meetings and otherwise.
• Assisting WiCys members to form their research timeline. 
• Ensuring a mentor to mentee relationship.
• Assist WiCys members in applying for fellowships, internships and/or jobs.

Graduate Student Advisor

As a Graduate Research Assistant at the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) division, an extension of Purdue University, my responsibilities included:

• Delivered 10 successful training batches.
• Concentration in providing Cyber Security Training to Business Professionals.
• Served as a TSAR for evaluating plagiarism/grading for following programs
    ➜ ACE (Applied Cybersecurity Essentials)
    ➜ ACES (Applied Cybersecurity Essentials - Specialist)
    ➜ ACE-HI (Applied Cybersecurity Essentials - Hybrid Intensive)
• The Lead Designer and instructor of Cyber Forensics the course.
• The Lead Designer of the course Enterprise Concepts.

Kratikal Tech Private Limited

• Designed cybersecurity courses for instructor-led and independent mode circulation.
• Designed and delivered cybersecurity courses on OWASP Top 10, Web Application Security, Mobile Application Security, Metasploit, Advanced DDoS, Honeypots, Network Scanning, Spoofing, Reconnaissance, Open Source Intelligence, Threat Intelligence, Cryptography, Injection Techniques, Cloud Security and Social Engineering.
• Evaluated then existing pedagogical methods and improved them through periodic collaboration with trainers.
• Tasked with the creation of testing and evaluation processes concerning the effectiveness of training programs.
• Formed online course structure for the Information Security Certified Professional (ISCP) Certification on Udemy.

Head Of Training Department

Crime Branch Delhi Police

• Comprehended digital profiles of convicts through manual and automated analysis.
• Excavated social media accounts to find criminal artifacts
• Analyzed suspected video artifacts by manual excavation to identify suspects.

Cyber Forensics Investigator

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

• Designed scalable and secure forensic solutions using QR codes to prevent cyber frauds through extensive coding in Python and MATLAB.
• Co-developed a system titled “Enhancing the Data Capacity of QR Codes” for increasing data capacity in QR codes by creating and formulating an extensive dataset with data samples of 3000+ on grayscale and colored QR Codes.

Research Assistant

◉PhD in Digital Forensics from the Department of CIT, Purdue University. My dissertation implements Capture the Flag infrastructure, where I lead the design, deployment, implement, manage, and collaborate on Digital Forensics challenges. My research leads me to perform testing, collect data, and analyze it. Thus enabling me to act as a Training Developer and Coordinator. My recent publications span mobile forensics, cloud forensics, software engineering, and threat intelligence modeling, garnering 94+ citations as first author.

Security Stack: BurpSuite, Nmap, Tenable, Wireshark, Vulnerability Management
Incident Response: Detection & response technologies (SIEM, EDR, XDR, YARA)
Programming Language/Frameworks: Python, NIST NICE, SQL, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST Incident Response
Forensic Tools: Autopsy, EnCase, FTK, Microsoft SysInternals, ELK Stack, PhotoRec, TestDisk, Kali OS
Speaker at: NIST NICE 800-181 conference, AIDE conference, The Diana Initiative, WiCyS, BlackHat, RSA, CERIAS, WISP

◉Research Assistant for cyberTAP at Purdue University" where I contribute to developing cybersecurity curriculum and providing professional education. 

◉Former Women in CyberSecurity- Purdue Chapter president, bringing the Best Chapter Award to our Boilermakers. Currently serving on the advising board of BBWIC (Breaking Barriers Women in Cybersecurity)

Email me at ykeimpurdue@gmail.com if you want to connect with me for full-time job opportunities.

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