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Brian Dykstra
Cybersecurity Advisor and Incident Response Executive
Columbia, MD, United States
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Experience:
Surefire Cyber delivers swift, strong response to cyber incidents such as ransomware, email compromise, malware, data theft, and other threats with end-to-end response capabilities. We provide clients confidence by helping them prepare, respond, and recover from cyber incidents—and to fortify their cyber resilience after an incident.
I work with our clients to improve their cybersecurity posture through ground truth security assessments, custom incident response table-top exercises (IR TTX), enterprise IT security architecture consulting and executive engagement.
2022 : Present
Surefire Cyber Inc.
Director of Cybersecurity Advisory Services
The vision for the Maryland Tech Council is to propel Maryland to become the number one innovation economy for life sciences and technology in the country. MTC brings the region’s community together into a single, united organization that empowers our members to achieve their business goals through advocacy, networking and education.
2020 :
Maryland Tech Council
Board Member
The Maryland Cybersecurity Council works with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and other federal agencies, private sector businesses, and private cybersecurity experts to improve cybersecurity in Maryland.
2021 :
Maryland Cybersecurity Council
Maryland Tech Council Designated Member
The Early College Program in Cybersecurity offers a career pathway that lets participating students earn half of the credits needed toward an associate’s degree while enrolled in high school. The program provides individualized academic support, college readiness training, and specialized programming at HCPSS and Howard Community College, and also includes valuable Cybersecurity industry certifications, opportunities to participate in the national CyberPatriot competition, and internships with professionals in the field and industry leaders.
2016 :
Howard County Public School System, Early College Program in Cybersecurity
Advisory Board Member
Owner of Atlantic Data Forensics a provider of E-Discovery, Digital Forensic, Expert Witness and Cybercrime services for corporate, legal and government clients.
2007 : 2022
Atlantic Data Forensics, Inc.
CEO
I work with our clients to improve their cybersecurity posture through ground truth security assessments, custom incident response table-top exercises (IR TTX), enterprise IT security architecture consulting and executive engagement.
2022 : Present
Surefire Cyber Inc.
Director of Cybersecurity Advisory Services
The vision for the Maryland Tech Council is to propel Maryland to become the number one innovation economy for life sciences and technology in the country. MTC brings the region’s community together into a single, united organization that empowers our members to achieve their business goals through advocacy, networking and education.
2020 :
Maryland Tech Council
Board Member
The Maryland Cybersecurity Council works with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and other federal agencies, private sector businesses, and private cybersecurity experts to improve cybersecurity in Maryland.
2021 :
Maryland Cybersecurity Council
Maryland Tech Council Designated Member
The Early College Program in Cybersecurity offers a career pathway that lets participating students earn half of the credits needed toward an associate’s degree while enrolled in high school. The program provides individualized academic support, college readiness training, and specialized programming at HCPSS and Howard Community College, and also includes valuable Cybersecurity industry certifications, opportunities to participate in the national CyberPatriot competition, and internships with professionals in the field and industry leaders.
2016 :
Howard County Public School System, Early College Program in Cybersecurity
Advisory Board Member
Owner of Atlantic Data Forensics a provider of E-Discovery, Digital Forensic, Expert Witness and Cybercrime services for corporate, legal and government clients.
2007 : 2022
Atlantic Data Forensics, Inc.
CEO
Company:
Surefire Cyber Inc.
About
Over 25 years of experience in leading and managing cyber security and incident response investigations for client world-wide. A broad range of skills from foreign intelligence collection operations to multi-national network intrusion investigation through management of multi-million dollar eDiscovery projects.
Specialties:
Computer Incident Response
Digital Forensics
Cybercrime
Expert Witness
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