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Duane Anderson

Security+, CPTS, CPTE, CDFE, CEH and Certified Instructor

BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS

Duane Anderson has had considerable  experience in the IT industry for the last two decades; his special focus is undertaking training and consultation to match business, training and public needs for related IT security. While in college he developed and sold proprietary software applications and provided consulting for large agribusiness enterprises. He then made the transition to the IT security field as a full-time administrator, consultant and instructor. During this time Duane worked for or with most US and some foreign military branches, U.S government agencies, banking and regulated industries and fortune 500 companies. Duane contributed to the coordination and execution of IT counter-hacking & security courses for the US Marine Corps, US Army, US Air Force, U.S. Treasury, Sprint, IBM, Washington Mutual and Service Canada. His ability to absorb and understand the general operation of organizations has enabled him to gather his experience into a  focused approach, bringing  unique and valuable solutions to client needs. Duane is  imminently qualified in his field in that he holds a number of professional qualifications -- Security+, CPTS, CPTE, CDFE, CEH and Mile2 Certified Instructor.

CURRENT PROFILE

Roles & Responsibilities: Duane is also engaged as a consultant, instructor and operations manager for a renowned international IT traing organization. He is responsible for the hiring and training of instructors, managing and performing internal and external penetration tests with significant daily operational responsibilities. Within the Professional Services department he is responsible for proposals, RFPs, reports, directing teams, and so forth. Other roles include designing and developing cutting edge custom security training material for government, military and corporate sectors.

Consulting & Training: Duane’s consulting and training undertakings usually revolve around highly specialized Penetration Testing, Forensics and general IT security events. In addition, Duane develops customized and blended security curriculum.  Duane has also appeared as an expert Witness for several court hearings for IT related matters. His tremendous experience in the field has made him a first rate trainer capable of illustrating his lessons with real life examples. He confesses that in the spectrum of IT Security he has a passion for Penetration Testing, both as Trainer and Consultant.

DUANE – THE PENTEST PROFESSIONAL

What “Pentest Professional” Means: A “Pen-test Professional” is one who performs penetration tests for companies and notifies them of vulnerabilities. Many leading companies perform these penetration tests using industry tools and bench marks for both internal and external attacks. This is not a best practice for securing an organization. Whereas, Duane has found that although these types of penetration tests add great value to a company, they nevertheless are no guarantee of immunity from elements with criminal or malicious intent.Duane performs penetration testing on clients’ networks using conventional and unconventional methods. Some of Duane’s clients include environmental protection agencies, medical practices, software development and marketing companies. Duane employs traditional hacking techniques using man-in-the-middle and ARP poisoning and also traditional physical security by-pass mechanisms as well as social engineering.

DUANE -- THE IT SECURITY PROFESSIONAL

Duane is constantly engaged in helping businesses optimize their systems security vision. He is acknowledged as an expert consultant and trainer serving large organizations with cutting edge IT security. His wide range of all product experience has helped to develop his overall systems security knowledge. Duane has a passion for solving IT security problems in pursuit of which he has had to grapple with issues which are inextricably entwined in an IT system lifecycle.

DUANE – THE CITIZEN

Behind the face of the successful IT consultant / trainer is a man who is amiable and well related to all segments of society, both in public business and private circles. Given his adept ability at leveraging his knowledge skill and many years of hands-on IT experience, it has arguably led him to become the preferred choice when translating the envisioned training/consulting requirements into highly optimized and productive solutions. Not one to rest on his laurels, Duane is constantly seeking new challenges and is currently engaged in exploring robust and scaleable business/training solutions in his field of expertise. Given his  successful track record,  there is every reason for an optimistic outlook.