John Green
Security Management Incident Response Manager - Cyber Security Officer at Texas Workforce Commission
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Green is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with 13 years in public-sector technology roles, currently serving as Security Management Incident Response Manager and Cyber Security Officer for the Texas Workforce Commission. He has led enterprise security and resilience as a CISO for Texas Parks and Wildlife and built continuity programs across multiple state agencies, blending policy, incident response, and disaster recovery expertise. A hands-on engineer as well as manager, he has contributed to the Metasploit Framework—enhancing VNC/Apple Remote Desktop authentication and exploits—demonstrating deep protocol-level security skills. Based in Austin, he pairs an ECE background from George Washington University and a commercialization MS from UT Austin with decades of consulting and entrepreneurial experience, bringing practical, audit-ready solutions to high-risk government and critical-infrastructure environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington UniversityMaster of Science, Commercialization of Science and Technology, Master of Science, Commercialization of Science and Technology at The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
metasploit10
ruby10
authentication10
exploit10
protocols10
meta-framework10
meta10
auth10
cryptography9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Oct 2012 - Sep 2018
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the Metasploit Framework's VNC (Virtual Network Computing) capabilities, specifically related to the Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) protocol. Their contributions involved implementing ARD authentication, adding a module to exploit a root vulnerability (CVE-2017-13872) within ARD, and refining the VNC login scanner. These modifications involved adding encryption and authentication logic in Rex and Metasploit libraries. Furthermore, they updated tests to accommodate these changes, showing a commitment to quality assurance.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
utiso/dorkbot
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Command-line tool to scan Google search results for vulnerabilities
Contributions:173 commits, 4 PRs, 256 pushes in 5 years 5 months
command-line-toolscanbugbountygoogle-search-resultsvulnerabilities
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