Bio
Dustin is an information security professional with more than 20 years of experience in the IT field including networks, programming, and hardware specialization. He earned his master's degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University. While serving in the U.S. Military, he excelled in the Cybersecurity field with Computer Incident Response Teams and as a Senior Test Engineer. Dustin also served as a lead developer in computer networking security, penetration testing, and training for the U.S. Department of Defense and various commercial entities. As the Senior Director of Emerging Technologies and Innovation at ISACA, Dustin currently develops innovative training programs to best prepare cybersecurity specialists for the future of this dynamic field.


EXPERIENCE
2016 - Present
Sr. Director of Emerging Technologies and Innovation
ISACA
Providing research, content, and thought leadership to the IT security community on emerging technologies.
2014-2016
Ops Tech Alliance
Chief of Cyber Operations
Conducted penetration testing, consultation and cyber operations training to commercial and Department of Defense customers.
2012-2014
Cyber Operations Consultant
Praemittias Defense Group
Provided cyber operations consultation and training to various government entities.
EDUCATION
2020
Western Governors University
Master's Degree - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Capstone Project: Creation of ephemeral cloud instances and software defined networks to obfuscate sensitive data.
Publications
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The Boxes of Pandora and Schrodinger. Published February 2021
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Intelligence: A Not So Mediocre Commodity Published December 2020
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Adapting to Emerging Technology Published October 2020
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The Dog Days of IoT. Published October 2020
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Why the Bleeding Edge is So Bloody Published August 2020
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Controlling the Cloud. Published July 2020
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Nothing But Blue Skies: Virtualizing Humanity Published June 2020
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The Patter of Emerging Technologies. Published April 2020
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Managing Remote Work Environments . Co-author Published March 2020
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Blockchain: Love It or Hate It, It’s Here. Published: March 2020
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The Cybersecurity Arms Race. Co-author Published: January 13th, 2020
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Better Controls & Strategies Needed to Thwart Physical Cyber-Attacks. Published: May 22nd, 2019
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Examining Meltdown and Spectre: How far hackers can go. Published: January 29th, 2018