Tim Yardley
Principal Security Engineer at Amazon
Mahomet, Illinois, United States
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RockstarTim Yardley is a Principal Security Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience, currently leading security efforts at Amazon from Mahomet, Illinois. He specializes in industrial control systems (ICS) and intrusion detection, contributing open-source Snort rules and tooling that detect default-password logins and integrate Talos/Quickdraw intelligence. Tim blends deep incident detection expertise with practical tool integration, turning threat research into deployable defenses across enterprise environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable security solutions that bridge operational tech and cloud-scale security engineering.
18 years of coding experience
Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
snort10
security-scan10
security-txt10
intrusion-detection10
security10
protocols9
hacking8
lists7
awesomewm6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ITI/ICS-Security-Tools
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Tools, tips, tricks, and more for exploring ICS Security.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 321 commits, 80 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focus on integrating security rules and tools, specifically Snort rules from Talos and Quickdraw, for intrusion detection. They added rules designed to detect default password login attempts for various industrial control systems (ICS) and web applications. Additionally, they mirrored and integrated ICS-related tools, indicating a focus on ICS security analysis and tool integration.
siemenssecurity-toolspcap-filessecurityics
ITI/searcch
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
SEARCCH Hub Frontend
Contributions:441 commits in 1 year 6 months
reactexperiments-resultsnsfzenodocybersecurity
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