Dustin Decker

Deep in DevSecOps

I spend a significant portion of my waking hours glued to a laptop coding, reviewing reports, analyzing data and attending school. I’m what the cool kids call “hella busy”.

There’s an adage about the cobblers’ children having no shoes, which dovetails nicely with the “eat your own dogfood” principle of DevOps. This is one of the many reasons I’ve devoted what feels like a ridiculous amount of time DOCUMENTING my repositories.

While local development environments certainly allow for a laissez faire approach to what gets touched and how, I’m quite aggressive in BANNING individual carbon-based life forms from logging directly into cloud “anything”.

We don’t do pet servers – we do everything in code.

Dustin Decker

Hello World! My name is Dustin Decker, and I am a full-time security researcher and student with over twenty years of experience as an information systems engineer. I am currently beginning my senior year pursuing my second bachelor’s degree in applied Cybersecurity (BACS) with the SANS Technology Institute. I anticipate graduating in May of 2024. I am a skilled Information Security Analyst with expertise in risk management framework (RMF), systems development life cycle (SDLC), security life cycle, management of a wide range of vulnerabilities and threats, fundamental business analysis, and project management. Skills: Microsoft Azure FedRAMP, Puppet, Artifactory, Django, Riverbed Steelscript, Riverbed SteelCentral NetShark, Vagrant, Chocolatey, MuleSoft, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, BASH Scripting, PowerShell, RHEL, DevOps, Docker, Visual Studio, BeEf, Bucket Finder, TLS-Scan, CeWL, JQ, Masscan, Metasploit/Meterpreter, Zenmap, Nmap, Mimikatz, SpiderFoot, Unshadow + John, Volatility, and personal new favorite: SRUM-Dump. I specialize in providing IT security expertise and guidance in support of security assessments and continuous monitoring for government (FISMA & NIST) and commercial clients. I am comfortable in heterogenous environments with tens of thousands of hosts.