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Eric Lankford
RAM | NYU Cyber Fellow | RSAC Security Scholar 2023
Fort Worth, TX, United States
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Experience:
2020 : Present
RAM, Inc
Cybersecurity Specialist
The K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) is the only national non-profit organization solely dedicated to protecting the U.S. K12 community—including school districts, charter schools, private schools, and regional and state education agencies—from emerging cybersecurity threats.
K12 SIX operates as an enhanced information sharing and analysis center (ISAC) for the education sector, facilitating the sharing of actionable threat intelligence with its membership. In addition, K12 SIX offers its members security training, access to virtual CISO services, leadership opportunities, and much more.
A member of the Global Resilience Federation (GRF), K12 SIX leverages decades of cross-sector information sharing experience and expertise from the financial services, legal, health, and energy sectors.
2020 : 2022
K12 SIX
Co-Founder/Director
- Developed and managed cybersecurity program based on NIST CSF, CIS Controls and Texas Administrative Code
- Evaluated and identified security solutions, including implementation of Greenbone Vulnerability Management, Corelight (Enterprise Zeek) and Elastic Cloud
2018 : 2020
Birdville ISD
Cybersecurity Engineer
- Provided report and blueprint that created cybersecurity controls, policies, and processes
- Supported HP ProCurve switches, and HP servers, Watchguard and Juniper firewalls, Ruckus Wireless, Cloudpath, JAMF Pro, OpenDNS, Zscaler, Azure and Office 365, GSuite, Solarwinds in a mixed Windows, macOS, iOS environment
- Migrated and consolidated physical and virtual systems to VMware vSphere 6.5, data migration from NAS to HP MSA SAN, and firewall upgrade from Watchguard to Juniper SRX
2015 : 2018
Trinity Valley School
Network Engineer
Worked on engagements for Novartis, Walmart, Henkel, Florida State University, among others.
- Provided project execution, upgrade, and management for McAfee products ePO 1.0 thru 5.x
- Analyzed, proposed and developed security strategies for corporate networks to deploy and implement (ePO, VSE, GTI, HIPS, EEFF, DLPE)
- Worked with enterprise environments from 500 to 250,000+ nodes, all levels of networking and OS platforms, and all levels of information technology organizations
- Engagements included providing expert service pre and post-sale to banking/financial, chemical manufacturing, largest retailer, pharmaceutical, universities, and governments
- Provided support for MS SQL Server. Wrote SQL queries for reporting on ePO threat events
2008 : 2015
Firecall Consulting
Senior Security Consultant
RAM, Inc
Cybersecurity Specialist
The K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) is the only national non-profit organization solely dedicated to protecting the U.S. K12 community—including school districts, charter schools, private schools, and regional and state education agencies—from emerging cybersecurity threats.
K12 SIX operates as an enhanced information sharing and analysis center (ISAC) for the education sector, facilitating the sharing of actionable threat intelligence with its membership. In addition, K12 SIX offers its members security training, access to virtual CISO services, leadership opportunities, and much more.
A member of the Global Resilience Federation (GRF), K12 SIX leverages decades of cross-sector information sharing experience and expertise from the financial services, legal, health, and energy sectors.
2020 : 2022
K12 SIX
Co-Founder/Director
- Developed and managed cybersecurity program based on NIST CSF, CIS Controls and Texas Administrative Code
- Evaluated and identified security solutions, including implementation of Greenbone Vulnerability Management, Corelight (Enterprise Zeek) and Elastic Cloud
2018 : 2020
Birdville ISD
Cybersecurity Engineer
- Provided report and blueprint that created cybersecurity controls, policies, and processes
- Supported HP ProCurve switches, and HP servers, Watchguard and Juniper firewalls, Ruckus Wireless, Cloudpath, JAMF Pro, OpenDNS, Zscaler, Azure and Office 365, GSuite, Solarwinds in a mixed Windows, macOS, iOS environment
- Migrated and consolidated physical and virtual systems to VMware vSphere 6.5, data migration from NAS to HP MSA SAN, and firewall upgrade from Watchguard to Juniper SRX
2015 : 2018
Trinity Valley School
Network Engineer
Worked on engagements for Novartis, Walmart, Henkel, Florida State University, among others.
- Provided project execution, upgrade, and management for McAfee products ePO 1.0 thru 5.x
- Analyzed, proposed and developed security strategies for corporate networks to deploy and implement (ePO, VSE, GTI, HIPS, EEFF, DLPE)
- Worked with enterprise environments from 500 to 250,000+ nodes, all levels of networking and OS platforms, and all levels of information technology organizations
- Engagements included providing expert service pre and post-sale to banking/financial, chemical manufacturing, largest retailer, pharmaceutical, universities, and governments
- Provided support for MS SQL Server. Wrote SQL queries for reporting on ePO threat events
2008 : 2015
Firecall Consulting
Senior Security Consultant
Company:
RAM, Inc
About
- Broad knowledge of IT operational support and information security risk over 20 years
- Experience in 1st to 3rd level support of business infrastructure, endpoints, and applications
- Relationship builder, and negotiator
- Trainer, leader and manager of technical and non-technical professionals
- Proven project manager, product developer, business development leader, and budgeter
- Skilled in information security, report design, networking, security management and implementation, sales support, and professional services
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