Colby Ross
Information System Security Engineer II
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColby Ross is an Information System Security Engineer II with nine years of hands-on experience securing enterprise and government environments from his base in Melbourne, Florida. He has deep operational expertise across NGFWs, SIEM, file integrity monitoring, VPNs, and network protocols, and routinely applies NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS frameworks to drive compliance and risk reduction. Colby’s background spans 24/7 network operations, security investigations, and device hardening—skills honed through roles that combined incident response with continuous monitoring using tools like ArcSight, Splunk, and CA Spectrum. Comfortable with Linux, virtualization, and programming, he blends practical network engineering (BGP, DMVPN, LTE) with security tooling and documentation discipline. Notably, he brings a field-proven ability to stabilize remote connectivity for critical infrastructure while maintaining rigorous change management and audit-ready processes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at ECPI University
Github Skills (97)
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ipv48
ipsec8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
w1bsb/xlxd
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
HAM radio multiprotocol dstar reflector server
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
ham-radiovttreflectorrtl-sdrdstar
w1bsb/urfd
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
A Universal Reflector with M17, a superset of XLX.
Contributions:10 pushes in 11 days
reflectorsuperset
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