Mark Darland Cybersecurity Frameworks and Toolkits

Mark Darland - CySA+ expertise focusing on best practice deliverables.

Mark Darland - Technical Expertise with the following: Web Application Firewalls, File Integrity Monitoring, System Risk Registers, Microsoft Group Policy Object Tools, Active Directory Deployment, DNSSEC, Amazon Web Services, Content Delivery Networks, Cloud Security Alliance, Apache HTTP OWASP, Apache Tomcat OWASP and IIS OWASP server deliverables.Operating system administration experience: Windows Server 2022/2019 and Oracle Linux 9.AWS Cloud Expertise: Specialization in AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, AWS Inspector, and AWS Trusted Advisor. Manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructures for cloud-native architectures.Areas of Interest in Software Estimation: function points for code complexity, proxy-based estimates, software estimation tools, and estimation by analogy.Areas of Interest in Computer Science: data structures, discrete mathematics, searching and sorting algorithms, parallel processing, and computer architecture.Book List for Professional Pursuits: Software Estimation by Steve McConnel. Code Complete (Second Edition) by Steve McConnell. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. Software Design (Second Edition) by David Budgen. Writing Solid Code (Second Edition) by Steve Maguire. Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit (Second Edition) with Ben Smith and Brian Komar with the Microsoft Security Team.Other areas of interest: Storage Area Networks, Cache Memory Architecture for CPUs, and WatchGuard Firebox Products.