A fresh perspective on IT security

Nov. 2, 2012
SecureXperts' Darnell Washington shares his cybersecurity insights

It’s a pleasure to join Cygnus and SecurityInfoWatch.com. I am honored to participate in providing commentary to the public on views and opinions that bring to light what I would refer to as the "practical side" of cybersecurity.

Through many of my years as a IT security evangelist,  I recognize the need to cut through all the rhetoric and come to a common ground on ways that we can collectively identify and defeat risk and vulnerabilities tied to cyber attacks, exploits, and miscreants who now consider  "hacking" as a profession. 

In my blog, I intend to share experiences and challenges from perspectives that can be translated into everyday use based on new and relevant topics. The focus of my blog won’t be re-tweets or regurgitated information found on news and other websites, however, I will definitely provide links as supporting information. 

Let’s start with basic security awareness and doing things personally to protect ourselves from cyber-exploitation. Then we can move into the larger scope of how we can protect our online identities at home and work, and eventually advance to the point where we can expand community and organization-wide knowledge and best practices that impact our ability to increase our cyber defenses against potential vulnerabilities.

Come back and visit often. You can contact me directly at [email protected].

About the Author

Darnell Washington, CISSP

Darnell Washington is the president and chief executive officer of SecureXperts, Inc. With over 25 years of professional information technology experience, Darnell is actively involved in the design of secure network information technology architectures. He maintains technical certifications in Microsoft, Novell, and Citrix operating systems, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

He specializes in high assurance secure network architecture design and deployment, and data encryption using advanced public key infrastructure technologies. Darnell is also the inventor of patented device encryption technologies used in federal and military cloud hosted video surveillance platforms, as well commercial and enterprise public and private environments.
He has served as a subject matter expert on the information assurance forum with the National Security Agency, and as a contract instructor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.