
Dr. Bright has over 12 years of professional experience in Cyber Security industry with strong expertise
in Cyber security strategy building, resilience and system penetration testing. He expresses various streams of knowledge in making cyber security awareness be embraced by all walks of life; technical & non-technical, using LIVE hacking demonstrations in a controlled environment.
He has conducted presentations at over 20 Cyber Security conferences, lectured at various universities and contributed to cyber security publications.
He has performed various evaluations and selections of Cyber Security tools and successfully implemented IT security systems to protect the Confidentiality, Availability and Integrity of critical business environment to curb and mitigate risks. He is highly skilled in various environments, especially Linux, dedicated and a team player with excellent leadership qualities.
Here is a set of his skillset:
● Certified Penetration Tester Engineer (mile2)
● Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
● IT Security Project Management
● Security Incident and Event Management
● Risk Assessment & Compliance
● Intrusion Detection & Prevention (IDS/IPS)
● Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
● Mobile Application Reverse Engineering
● Disaster Recover Planning & Management
● Afrisecure – SouthAfrica:
● CIO East Africa Cyber Security Summit 2017: Breaking the Cyber KillChain
● East Africa Cyber Security Forum(Amadeus/CIO/BitDefender) 2017
● Co-founder of AfricaHackOn , the first ever hands on hacking conference in Africa held in Nairobi, Kenya on 28th of February, 2014 http://www.africahackon.com
● AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2016: Cyber Security Workshop- Live Hacking Demonstration and Organizer of Anti-Corruption App Challenge/Young Innovators Pavilion
● Data Protection Conference Ghana 2016: Data Protection Challenges faced by IT professionals and administrators
● BBC Featured: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34830724
● Online Cyber Security training at various Kenyan Universities (7) with Africahackon team.
● Presenter at Kenya ICT for County Government Conference: Cyber Security Management for ICT Growth In Kenya
● Contributed to the Award Winning OWASP Mth3l3m3nt Framework v1.2
https://github.com/alienwithin/OWASP-mth3l3m3nt-framework.git
● Presenter and winner of best presentation at The 8th Workshop among Asian Information Security Labs (WAIS2015) about “Analysis of BYOD and Advanced Insider Threat for Evolving Cyber Threat Attacks in Corporate Networks”
● Commendation award winner at 10 th English Economic Essay Contest (Securing Banking Systems in South Korea)
● Strathmore University Annual ICT conference, Nairobi(Security Analysis and Evaluation Methods for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks)
● Presenter at BarCamp Nairobi 2014 (Phishing and ClickMe Frenzy)
● Speaker at ISACA evening talk, Kenya Chapter (APT attacks, 30/1/2014 )
● Guest Information Security lecturer at United States International University (Systems Development, 22/3/2012 & Penetration Testing as with Live Demo and reverse engineering for android application vulnerability, 19/7/2012 )
● Guest lecturer for Strathmore University, Nairobi Kenya, Certified Ethical Hacker Class ( 24/2/2014 )