Don Ngo Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Saved the company millions of dollars in potential damage by identifying critical vulnerabilities in the payment infrastructure that processes millions of transactions everyday and working with Directors and the CSO to completely mitigate the issues. - Acted as a Subject Matter Expert providing in-depth knowledge of corporate security and advanced persistent threats to significantly enhances security of the Fifth largest payment processor in the U.S.- Technical skills: Network penetration testing, Red teaming, OWASP Top 10, Web application penetration testing, Advanced SQL Injection, Advanced Cross site Scripting, Mobile testing, SAST, DAST, Secure code review, Python, PHP, .NET, Powershell, Javascript, HTML, BurpSuite, CobaltStrike, Metasploit, Kali, Nmap, MSSQL, MySQL.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Worked and reported directly to the Chief Security Officer (CSO of the year 2013).- Conducted penetration testing to enhance security and significantly minimize business risks for the fourth largest payment processor in the U.S.- Saved the company millions of dollars in potential damage by uncovering many critical vulnerabilities in the core infrastructure then successfully designed and executed mitigation plan.- Received the annual All-Star award for this outstanding contribution.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Designed, deployed and managed Web Application Firewall to stop advanced attacks and threats while eliminating impact to legitimate customers. - Created web application security policies along with best practice guides for hundreds of commercial web applications that serve thousands of customers and millions of dollars in transactions daily.- Received the annual All-Star award for my outstanding contribution.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Every semester, I am invited by the university faculties to give guest lectures with hands-on exercises on network security for graduate and undergraduate courses. These lectures have received great supportive feedback from professors as well as students.

Richardson, Texas, Us

- Worked with PhD researchers to develop an innovated method attacking Oracle Database by dumping the master key from the memory. - Invented an automated process of decrypting sensitive data and placing backdoors inside Oracle databases.- Developed a series of hands-on labs for training graduate students in Network Security course ( funded by the National Security Agency).- Next-generation botnets Analysis: Explored how web-based Botnets work and how to defend against them (funded by the Department of Defense).

Master Of Science In Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity

Education record

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science