Patrick Best
Manager Cyber Security Operations
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Best is a seasoned cybersecurity leader based in Toronto with a 25-year technical background and over a decade of focused security leadership across telecom and consulting. He currently manages Cyber Security Operations at TELUS, securing critical networks and driving reliability for large-scale services while previously overseeing a 220+ firewall portfolio and zero-trust, DLP, and SASE initiatives. Patrick blends deep networking and systems expertise with hands-on incident response, long-term remediation, and platform migration experience across enterprise and carrier environments. He has a track record of operationalizing security controls, improving signal-to-noise in logging, and leading special technical investigations and reconnaissance teams for clients. Comfortable in both strategic and tactical roles, he thrives on solving problems at scale and shepherding new technology introductions into production. His practical roots in networking education and early carrier troubleshooting give him uncommon empathy for legacy systems during large modernization efforts.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Networking, Associate’s Degree Computer Networking at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (91)
squid10
avatar9
ftp9
icap9
exporter9
proxy9
oid9
cacti9
web-proxy9
smtp9
docker9
dkim8
system-information8
mta8
mailbox8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
patrickscottbest/hammerOID
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Cacti Device OID AutoTuning and Polling Machine Learning Performance Templates
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 1 month
cactimachine-learningperformanceoidpolling
patrickscottbest/OIDrage
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A lightweight SNMP server for testing purposes. Sends very limited responses of test data. Designed to scale.
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
snmptestingtest-datascale
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