DerekĀ Armstrong
Senior Cloud Security Analyst at SANS Institute
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Armstrong is a Senior Cloud Security Analyst with 11 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, incident response, penetration testing, and cloud/IT outsourcing security. He has a long track record supporting health sector security at Alberta Health Services and Health Shared Services, and has consulted at CrowdStrike and TELUS on advanced threat and cloud controls. A seasoned SANS contributor since 2013, Derek authors and reviews OnDemand course materials and mentors incident handling students, bringing both practitioner and educator perspectives. His background spans memory forensics and web application testing alongside systems and UNIX leadership from earlier roles, giving him deep operational insight into both infrastructure and application risks. Based in Edmonton, he combines practical lab-tested techniques with policy-aware, auditable solutions for regulated environments. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex technical findings into pragmatic remediation and resilient cloud architectures.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Brandon University
Github Skills (73)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dsplice/KapeFiles
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
This repository serves as a place for community created Targets and Modules for use with KAPE.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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dsplice/ConferenceTalkIdeas
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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