Dale Lakes
Manager Of Security Assurance at AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDale Lakes is a seasoned security leader with 11+ years in information security and over two decades in IT operations, now serving as Manager of Security Assurance at AmTrust. He blends hands-on engineering (including contributor work to the well-known Zeek network analysis framework) with strategic security architecture, audit collaboration, and GRC alignment to make resilience a built-in part of development. Dale advocates iterative improvement, DevOps principles applied to security, and treating everyday users as a vital detection layer—approaches he actively teaches and defends for his teams. His background spans roles from Unix systems administration to director-level security engineering at IBM, underscoring a rare combination of practitioner depth and leadership in complex enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA Communications, BA Communications at Ohio Northern UniversityHigh School Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School Diploma College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Valley View High SchoolContinuiung Education Computer Programming, Continuiung Education Computer Programming at Lakeland Community College
Github Skills (4)
network-monitoring10
security9
dns8
python3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
zeek/zeek
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dale primarily contributed to the Zeek network analysis framework by modifying and adding to the DCE-RPC protocol definitions. Their work involved updating operation names, opnums, and fixing typos in the `consts.bro` files, which define protocol constants. They also refactored code to ensure consistent numeric types within the DCE-RPC definitions. The user also updated DNS query types, including reverting a change for DNS query type ANY to "*".
dfirnsmsecurityanalysisnetworking
spitfire55/MegaDev
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
data-blockelkbro-idsdata-exfiltrationexfiltration
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