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2016 BLOG Reset consistent posting

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Hello,

I'm using the New Year (2016) to RESET my online presents to support the community. Marshall's Current focus as a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with Microsoft Azure and specifically with customers Azure Government.

My focus is going to support my personal goals to help others prep for and get the NEXT Cyber Security position. My BLOG Posting goals are to write more consistent with individual post that explain how Microsoft Networks are "Securely" enabled. I have a list of products and over the next few posts and plan to establish a "Security" focused roadmap. The short list includes products but also services, networking, frameworks and helpful processes & procedures:

  • Microsoft Azure (overview and deeper in some features)
  • ExpressRoute & Hyper-V Network Virtualization
  • Azure Virtual Networks and Network Security Groups
  • Azure Active Directory (AAD)
  • Microsoft Active Directory (AD) on-premises
  • Deep understanding of Windows Operating Systems (OS)
  • System Center Management Suite
  • Azure Operational Insight
  • Networking technologies including: Domain Name Systems (DNS), TCP/IP,
  • Knowledge of debugging and disassembly tools:
  • IdaPro (or HexRays)
  • OllyDbg
  • WinDbg (some work)
  • Assembly language for x86 & x64
  • Ability to perform static and dynamic analyses of suspect binaries without access to source or debug information.
  • Experience with reverse engineering binaries and exploit code
  • Use the Windows System Internals guidance to understand the Windows OS and Security
  • Kali Linux (Security Framework and "Level Set" on Cyber Security)

Key IT Support areas that I've been working in while attending school at Dakota Sate.

Provide excellence in hands-on guidance, strategic identity & network architecture and security to enable customers to transform business agility by migrating on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure. Enabling customers to leverage Azure as a world-class, open platform cloud computing solution, extending IP (CIDR) Networking while supporting Windows and Linux Operating Systems, supporting numerous languages such as Python (for Cyber-Security).NET, JSON, some C#. My current role (Cloud Solution Architect) provides me customer facing, 100% accountable for end-to-end superior customer cloud deployment.

 

Masters of Science (MSIA) with Dakota State University (DSU.EDU)

During the Spring Semester of 2016, I'll complete my MSIA  (Masters of Science Information Assurance) focused on Banking & Finance.

Some of the classes I've taken since 2014 are listed ( DSU Classes found here https://bit.ly/1RLslqP )

INFA 701 - Principles of Information Assurance

INFA 713 - Managing Security Risks

INFA 715 - Data Privacy

INFA 720 - Incident Response

INFA 721 - Computer Forensics

INFA 723 - Cryptography

INFA 735 - Offensive Security

INFA 742 - Ethics and Information Technology

INFA 745 - Compliance and Audit

INFS 754 - Network Security/Intrusion Detection

TECHNOLOGY (Updating as individual projects for 2016)  

Regulatory Compliance – CSA / CCM, CJIS, CDSA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001/27002:2013, PCI DSS, SOC, ITIL, SOX, PCI DSS and other NIST documents

IT Governance Frameworks – ITIL, MOF, TOGAF 9.1, CobiT, ITSM, ISO/IEC 38500:2008, IT Auditing

Servers OS – Windows Server CORE, Server 2016/12R2/12, 2008R2, Linux: CentOS, Ubuntu, Kali Linux (Cyber-Security focused learning)

Other Technologies – Active Directory (Kerberos), PKI and Certificate Services, Database architect (MS SQL, Hadoop), CCNA, CCNA Security, Microsoft System Center 2012 R2, SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, SCVMM and Hyper-V, Python 2.7, Ruby on Rails, C#

 

PUBLICATIONS 

Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out – MSPress, 10/25/2013 (co-author) Purchase a copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/1RMhM6Y

Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out – MSPress, print date 6/2016 Second Edition (current book project)

Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying and Managing Your Data Center in the Cloud – Apress Books, Published October / 2015 (co-author)

Apress Publishing https://www.apress.com/

Purchase a copy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/1SmLWgJ