Cybersecurity Blue Team Toolkit

Foreword

The year was 2012 and I took a big leap in my own career to move across the country. I filled a role to lead a three‐person team providing information technology and security training to Department of Defense personnel. This leadership role was new to me having worked for the past eight years in the intelligence and information security world for the most part as a trainer. While building out the team in the fall of 2012, I interviewed a wonderful candidate from Louisiana named Nadean Tanner. She was full of personality, charisma, knowledge, and most importantly, she had the ability to train. She proved this as part of her training demonstration in the interview process. I knew she was the right candidate and hired her almost immediately. Hiring Nadean is still one of the best decisions I made, and she is one of the greatest trainers I know. My philosophy is that a great trainer does not simply regurgitate what they know. Rather, they have the ability to explain a topic in different ways so that each learner can comprehend. Nadean embodies this philosophy.

Nadean has trained thousands of learners on topics from hardware to advanced security. In each class, she takes the time and effort to ensure every learner gets what they need. Whether learning a product for performing their job, building out their professional development, or advancing their career with a certification, Nadean covers it all. If you had the opportunity to attend one of her training classes, consider ...