Rob Vandenbrink
Principal Consultant at Coherent Security
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRob Vandenbrink is a Principal Consultant with four decades of hands-on networking and security experience and a consulting practice spanning financial and manufacturing clients across multiple timezones. He blends deep technical skills—network architecture, virtualization, Linux, Windows/AD, scripting (Python, PowerShell, Ansible), and bespoke Cisco tools—with pragmatic security assessments, penetration testing and operational automation. A long-time SANS Internet Storm Center incident handler and course co-author, Rob contributes research, tooling and talks on topics from automotive OBD attacks to Fibre Channel and social media mapping. He authored "Linux for Networking Professionals" and maintains open-source controls and auditing code on GitHub that complements his CIS and Palo Alto benchmarking work. Known for solving unusual, long-forgotten infrastructure problems, he focuses on integrating security into business processes to make measurable, positive shifts in risk posture. Based in Stratford, Ontario, he combines practitioner rigor with a consultant’s knack for practical, repeatable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSISE, Information Security, MSISE, Information Security at Sans Technology InstituteBaSc, Mechanical Engineering, BaSc, Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (19)
vsphere9
security8
wireless7
powershell7
api6
linux6
networking6
backend5
vpn4
proxy4
firewall4
vendor4
captive-portal4
bsd3
opnsense3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robvandenbrink/vsphere-hardening-guide
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
vSphere Security Audit Scripts, Based on the vSphere Hardening Guide.
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
securityvsphere
robvandenbrink/rtrbk
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Network Appliance Backups in PowerShell
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
powershell
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