About Me

Cyber professional, author, and public speaker

I grew up in a small town in the Kansas City, Missouri area, where there was little to no exposure to STEM. After I graduated high school, I pursued higher education to have a career in law enforcement, but an elective class in college guided me into cyber. I have been fighting the cyber fight since 2018 and have enjoyed every minute of it! I pursue my passion by giving back to my community and the younger generation through public speaking events and virtual mentorship.

When I am not lost in logs or reading the latest BleepingComputer article, you can find me traveling the country or eating Thai food.

Speaker Topics

With over 6+ years' experience, I have a wide range of speaking topics I am passionate about. If you would like to see some topics I cover with my speaking services, please see the list below:

- Security Education and Awareness

- How to build and mature your security education

- How to identify risk and knowledge gaps with phishing metrics

- How to develop and collect mature phish for your phishing pool

- Using gen AI to build a mature and evolving awareness program

- Security Operations Center

- How to build a Security Operations Center

- How to use data to make data-driven decisions

- Where to invest in your team to build education

- How to create a mission and vision for your SOC

- How to create roadmaps for your SOC

- Using metrics to improve your SOC

- Using metrics to identify risk targeting your business

- Detection Engineering

- Learn what Detection Engineering is

- Understand the difference between behavioral detection and threat detection

- Understanding what APT or threats are targeting your business

- How to build, mature, or grow your detection engineering program

- How to use AI can help assist evolve your monitoring

- How to use metrics to showcase business and security risk through Detection Engineering

- How to build partnerships with cross business segments to improve monitoring and detection

- How to use open-source tools to identify gaps and areas of improvement with detection engineering

- STEM Engagement

- Leadership Development