Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson is building out a security monitoring program for a major health insurer in the Pittsburgh area. Additionally, he is an organizer of the Security BSides Pittsburgh conference.

Andy has spoken about security monitoring at BSides Cleveland 2017. He holds a SANS GMON continuous monitoring certification.

Professionally, Andy has successfully completed projects such as:

Actively initiated the designing and implementing of a program to enhance network security via Cisco ISE, Tenable Nessus, Splunk, and the implementation of policies and procedures to create a segmented network.

While a security analyst, implemented a rudimentary security monitoring program that detected (but sadly didn't block) the Chinese Army infiltrating the network that eventually led to the FBI filing charges and his employer filing complaints with the WTO.

Successfully proposed, managed, and implemented Splunk for log aggregation and security monitoring in a SIEM style configuration.

Successfully proposed, managed, and implemented projects to modernize an edge security environment including refreshing firewall and proxy technology.

While a BlackBerry Enterprise Admin, migrated a global environment of 5 servers / 5,000 users from BES 4 to BES 5.

Personally, Andy manages a segregated home network monitored by Splunk and Bro NSM. He is slowly starting to get in to "Internet Of Things" systems on his home network.

In addition to organizing BSides Pittsburgh, Andy regularly attends BSides Las Vegas and DerbyCon.

Andy is a BSA Eagle Scout and a long time member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Amnesty International.