Colin Grady
Security Research Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorColin Grady is a Security Research Engineering Technical Leader based in Denver with over a decade of hands-on experience and more than twenty years of cumulative practice across operations, consulting, engineering, and mentoring in information security. He leads threat research and defensive engineering at Cisco Talos, previously founding and maturing incident response and detection programs across large enterprises and service providers. Colin has a track record of shipping first-to-market integrations and tooling—everything from automated endpoint containment and Splunk eStreamer apps to large-scale Snort deployments—bridging product, network, and SIEM ecosystems. Comfortable in high-pressure incident response and long-range platform work, he pairs deep technical craft (protocols, telemetry, and APIs) with pragmatic leadership that accelerates team impact. He’s equally at home reverse-engineering threats or architecting scalable monitoring pipelines, and he has previously held a U.S. Government security clearance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (49)
snort10
pgp10
yubikey10
rsa-cryptography10
security10
smartcard10
remote-access10
ssh-agent10
gnupg10
gpg-agent10
hardening10
spooler10
ssh10
jailbreak9
compound9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colingrady/YubiKey-Guide
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Guide to using YubiKey for GPG and SSH
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
sshgpgyubikey
shirkdog/pulledpork3
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Pulled Pork for Snort3 rule management
Contributions:102 commits, 25 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
pythonrulesetsnortrulesnort3
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