Dan Bauer Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, CO, US

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Serve as a people leader managing the high-performing Network Security Services Planning team responsible for strategic security processes and capabilities protecting Verizon Network assets.
• Lead a team of 8 direct and indirect reports and contractors, focusing on servant leadership and the development of each team member while managing a budget valued at $61M in a fiscally responsible manner. Notable.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Served as a people leader, managing the Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP) Infrastructure Security team, responsible for mitigating risk and organizing defenses to help protect cloud and virtualization assets.
• Implemented people/servant leadership for a team of 10 direct and indirect reports and contractors, leading team management, task delegation and prioritization, staff growth, and coaching.Notable achievements while in.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Served in a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS-Technology) role as a security subject matter expert (SME) for the Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP).
• Oversaw SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management and ansible automation and the remediation of penetration test findings from Risk Management via VCP Deployment Engineering and security audit findings.
• Managed the OpenSCAP baseline hardening of VCP infrastructure, corporate security compliance, and Center for Internet Security (CIS) 20 Critical Controls application to the platform.
• Conducted the evaluation of identity and access management control tools (CyberArk, Hashicorp Vault) for human and automation access to Infrastructure.
• Performed the tracking and verification of VCP Security Readiness levels for all sites/regions.
• Facilitated the VCP SysOps delivery of platform intelligence to the Network Security Operations Team and Network Incident Response Team.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Responsible for the system administration and operational on-call duties for the Verizon Cloud Platform while in a role that evolved to focus specifically on security operations and remediation.
• Led SSL/TLS cert renewals/lifecycle management, VCP Operations on-call and system administration, and the tracking and verification of VCP Security Readiness levels for all sites/regions.
• Managed the VCP IOC/SysOps delivery of platform intelligence to NSOC/NSIRT
• Directed the VCP IOC/SysOps delivery of platform intelligence to NSOC/NSIRT and assisted in ensuring Endpoint Security Tools CCS-ESM/DCS-CSP compliance and deployment for Infrastructure.
• Responsible for the Colorado Springs Data Center (Network Equipment Center/NEC) FW infrastructure/Security.
• Managed Juniper 3600/5800 SRX and ISG2000 Firewalls and F5 5200 Firewalls.