Donald "Gator" Jackson Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Driving mission focused outcomes for the United States DOD cyber forces. Working closely with industry expertise to ensure customers to operationalize industry leading technologies and modernize the discovery and security of critical IoT and OT assets.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

(Mandiant divested from FireEye in October 2021)Mandiant is on the front lines of cyber attacks every day. Our unrivaled real-time knowledge of the global threat landscape comes from more than two decades of experience, including 350,000+ hours of incident investigations and cyber security consulting each year, and 700+ highly experienced threat researchers, platform engineers, malware analysts, intelligence analysts, and investigators, as well as a global network of best-in-class business partners.Our unique understanding of how organizations combat cyber attacks guides us as we build our products, analyze and produce our threat intelligence, arm our Managed Defense teams, and help our Mandiant cyber security consultants prepare for, respond to, and remediate breaches. Simply put, we provide the best line of defense in cyber security.https://www.mandiant.com

Greater Atlanta Area

Verodin is defining the emerging concept of Instrumented Security. Its revolutionary platform empowers customers to measure and continuously validate the cumulative effectiveness of layered security infrastructures, revealing true security posture. Through automated defense analysis, Verodin customers achieve maximum value from security spending, better leverage existing security investments, and measurably improve their cyber prevention, detection and response capabilities.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Flight Commander for major projects, plans, and integrations for the 33 Network Warfare Squadron. Responsibilities include:- Leading the migration to JRSS for the unit, acting as the core voice for Air Force Defensive Cyber Operations to the JRSS community. - Updating existing tools and network infrastructure as well as integrating sources of threat data to build a modern and holistic operational picture for analyst. - Developing both short and long term requirements to defend the Air Force enterprise wide.- Coordinating with other DoD organizations on the most current cyber devices, software/tool kits, and DCO tactics.- Acting Programmatic and Technical Manager of multiple Professional Services contracts, overseeing 20+ subject matter experts from 17 cyber vendors.

Lead engineer and operations liaison for Air Force Cyberspace Defense (ACD) Weapon System. Responsibilities include:- The engineering and life-cycle management of all of the defensive cyber tools in the ACD portfolio including the SIEM, packet capture, intrusion prevention system, intrusion detection system, host based security systems, and cyber hunt tools.- The engineering and life-cycle management of the network infrastructure of the operations network enclave, including routing/switching, firewalls, virtual machines and managers, network mapping tools, and data management platforms.- Maintain the currency of the Technical-Orders, dictating the configurations of the live and lab environments.- Lead a small team of 9 government and contracting engineers and project managers, together responsible for over 40 million dollars of hardware and licensing- Translating operational requirements to leadership to secure manpower and funding for development of new capabilities.- Coordinating with industry, AFSPC, 24 AF, 67 CSW, and AFLCMC to complete multi-year projects.