Summary
Robert Cato is a Senior Security Analyst in Tampa with nine years focused on enterprise information security and a three-decade IT career that spans the U.S. Coast Guard to Tampa International Airport. He brings deep hands-on experience with Varonis, Tessian, IronPort, Armis, Qualys and core infrastructure technologies including VMware, NetApp, Windows Server, Active Directory and backup systems. At TPA he progressed from SAN/Server Engineer to senior security lead, applying systems-level insight from managing multi-petabyte CCTV HCI environments to harden airport operations. Robert pairs industry certifications and process familiarity (Security+, ITIL) with practical incident prevention and detection work, and is comfortable operating where compliance, availability, and security intersect. A detail-oriented operator, he leverages decades of legacy and modern platform experience to translate complex threats into auditable, operational controls.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer