Summary
Shane Albright is a Principal Security Engineer with two decades of IT and information security experience, currently focused on strengthening cybersecurity for research and higher education as part of REN-ISAC. He designs and operationalizes security programs, policies, and incident response exercises while creating hands-on service offerings to help small colleges and research institutes mature their security posture. Shane blends engineering and automation—having architected an on-demand penetration testing environment in AWS using Kali, Terraform, Packer, and Ansible—to make assessments repeatable and scalable. He also leads threat intelligence collection and dissemination, turning observations into actionable guidance for member institutions. Comfortable translating technical controls into practical, auditable processes, he excels at enabling organizations with limited resources to achieve measurable improvements. An aptitude for combining policy work with infrastructure-as-code automation sets him apart from typical security practitioners.
10 years of coding experience
English, German