Scott Knauss
Owner CEO at General Dynamics Information Technology
United States
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Top SchoolScott Knauss is a cybersecurity and cloud architect with over two decades of hands-on experience securing Linux, IP networks, and virtualized environments for large-scale and mission-critical operations. He led tier III support for the US Navy’s Mediterranean fleet, delivering 99.999% availability across thousands of users with no intrusions or data loss, and has repeatedly translated operational requirements into automated, error-free tooling. As founder and CEO of Immauss Technology Solutions and vCISO Catalyst, he combines consulting, incident recovery, and community-driven security leadership while working in senior roles at Red Hat, GDIT, and prominent web and Drupal firms. Scott is a pragmatic engineer who builds cost-effective, virtualized firewall suites and bespoke monitoring platforms, and has automated repetitive Cisco ACL management to cut weekly effort from hours to minutes. He enjoys teaching and demystifying security for nontechnical audiences, having lectured healthcare professionals and improved HIPAA-site login tracking through geolocation tooling. Based in the United States, he blends deep operational pedigree with entrepreneurial drive to deliver practical, auditable security outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
General, General at Lee Davis High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Maryland Global Campus
Italian
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Github Skills (71)
scanner10
docker-compose10
compose10
vulnerability10
openvas10
gvm10
docker10
docker-image10
vulnerability-assessment9
testing9
vulnerability-management9
security9
vulnerability-scanners9
vulnerability-detection9
nessus9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
immauss/openvas
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Containers for running the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager. Run as a single container with all services or separate single applications containers via docker-compose.
Contributions:15 releases, 3 reviews, 107 commits in 2 years 9 months
containersscanneropenvasdocker-imagegreenbone-vulnerability-manager
immauss/rev-prox
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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