Summary
Rob Cooper is a senior cyber security engineer with over two decades of experience securing large-scale services at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard/DXC, and T-Mobile, and a track record advising Fortune 500 customers like Target and Best Buy. He blends hands-on penetration testing and tool-driven analysis with security architecture and program strategy, including designing Microsoft Passport’s security architecture and creating repeatable threat-modeling approaches that capture 80% of traditional models in a fraction of the time. At T-Mobile he mapped complex, wall-sized system architectures and aligned controls to DoD/CMMC and NIST 800-53 guidance, while earlier roles produced company-wide service catalogs and automated malware/source-code scanning for HPE. Comfortable shifting between agile and process-driven environments, he has led small specialist teams, created measurable security maturity metrics, and driven adoption of common practices across large organizations. He’s also an author of technical reference books and brings an uncommon mix of political science and law study background that informs his pragmatic, risk-aware approach to security governance.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Law, Law at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara