Benjamin Wood
Cyber Security Consultant at RISCPoint
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wood is a Cyber Security Consultant with a decade of professional experience and over five years focused on offensive security and compliance-driven programs. As Penetration Testing Practice Leader at RISCPoint, he blends hands-on pentesting with advisory work to harden clients’ systems and processes. He played a key role in a HITRUST remediation and certification effort at Dasher Services, identifying and helping close 125+ control gaps across 100+ requirements. Comfortable working across technical and policy domains, he has experience collecting evidence, drafting compliant procedures, and coordinating with third-party assessors. Based in Pennsylvania, Benjamin pairs practical warehouse-team leadership experience with analytic rigor from data-analysis work, giving him a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to security. He’s known for translating complex compliance demands into auditable, operational controls that reduce risk without blocking business flow.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State AltoonaHarrisburg University of Science and TechnologyAssociate's degree, CyberSecurity, Sophomore, Associate's degree, CyberSecurity, Sophomore at HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
Github Skills (32)
scanner10
vulnerability10
security-scanner10
dsl10
security10
vulnerability-assessment10
vulnerability-detection10
yaml10
static-analysis9
penetration-testing9
pentest9
report-generator9
nginx8
docker8
vulnerabilities8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bennettwarner/ChadTunnel
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
bennettwarner/FaceFinder84
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 issues in 1 year 5 months
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