Rob Vandenbrink
Principal Consultant at SANS Internet Storm Center
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.
9 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 (23)
wireless8
captive-portal7
appliance7
api7
backend7
cisco6
powershell5
proxy5
firewall5
vpn5
ips5
endpoint-security4
netmiko4
bsd4
juniper4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robvandenbrink/vsphere-hardening-guide
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
robvandenbrink/robvandenbrink.github.io
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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