Aaron B. Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Responsible for the comprehensive design, implementation, and continuous optimization of Liberty Energy's systems and infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity. Utilizes extensive experience in offensive security to proactively identify vulnerabilities, identify risks, and implement innovative security measures to safeguard the organization's assets. Acts as the primary escalation point for all IT/OT-related issues, providing expert-level troubleshooting and resolution for infrastructure, networking, solution development, and cybersecurity concerns. Identifies and implements process improvements across the organization, utilizing technical expertise to enhance operational efficiency, system performance, and overall security posture. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design and implement technology solutions that address both immediate and long-term business needs, with a focus on safety, reliability, efficiency, and security.

Spearheaded customer engagements in cybersecurity, delivering comprehensive services such as vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and network architecture reviews. Played a key role in the continuous enhancement of service offerings, focusing on scalability, repeatability, and alignment with industry standards and best practices. Contributed to the company's knowledge base and industry presence by writing informative blog posts on currant cybersecurity issues and best practices. Regularly presented at cybersecurity conferences, sharing expertise and insights on advanced security topics, raising the company's profile in the cybersecurity community. Actively engaged in knowledge sharing and mentorship within the team, enhancing overall service quality and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Performed high severity notification triage and proactive threat hunting with the Dragos Platform deployed in customer environments based on the latest adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to strengthen the defensive posture of customer environments. Findings and observations were delivered in the form of reports and included actionable and strategic recommendations to mitigate risk. Contributed to the larger community by delivering conference presentations & webinars as well as developing challenges for capture-the-flag events.

Led individual customer engagements as a primary subject matter expert while performing vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and architecture reviews in complex industrial environments.

Greater Denver Area

Contributed to strategies and roadmaps targeting security risk mitigation, and the development of overall architecture design and engineering across all security areas. Collaborated with workstream owners addressing security related matters (DCS, SCADA, etc.), including measurement and communications. Oversaw scheduling and implementation of hardware repairs and new projects, in addition to next generation firewall and endpoint protection administration. Conducted purple team exercises within the internal security team to increase maturity and awareness regarding security of industrial control systems. Drove an initiative to successfully implement a passive scanning solution across ~70 assets with the goal of gaining visibility into industrial control system networks. In addition, configured system health monitoring and alerting for SCADA/DCS teams. Led the design and implementation of the infrastructure and network for the organization to remotely operate natural gas gathering and processing facilities. Work included workstation and server hardening, with the outcome resulting in numerous successful results with 3rd party penetration testing service organizations.