Lucas Pippenger
Cyber Active Defense Team Lead at North Dakota Information Technology Department (ITD)
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Pippenger is a cybersecurity leader with 11 years of IT experience and nine years focused exclusively on security, currently leading the Cyber Active Defense Team for the North Dakota IT Department. He progressed from developer and web app penetration tester to directing a team that blends Threat Intelligence, Red Team operations, and Security Automation Engineering to harden state infrastructure. A lifelong learner and former adjunct instructor in programming, Lucas combines hands-on coding chops with practical offensive and defensive security expertise. Based in Bismarck, he is known for building workflows and automation that make security repeatable and scalable, and for cultivating a highly dedicated team culture that emphasizes daily teaching and learning.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General, Diploma, General at Hazen High SchoolAssociates Degree of Science, Automotive mechanics and Management, Associates Degree of Science, Automotive mechanics and Management at Wyoming Technical InstituteAssociates Degree, Computer Science, Associates Degree, Computer Science at Bismarck State College
English
Github Skills (25)
nessus8
security7
information-security7
fraud-detection6
threat-intelligence6
api6
cybersecurity6
information-sharing6
threat-hunting6
python6
fraud-prevention6
infosec4
incident-response4
discord-py4
dump3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
midpipps/PythonFlaskVulnerableApp
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
midpipps/remote_agent
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 10 months
encrypted-datapythonencryptedpython3data-transfer
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