Isiah Jones Engineering & Technology Thoughts

  Engineering & Technology Professional with 20 years of progressive multidisciplinary education, trainings, degrees, certifications and experiences in various aspects of information technology (IT), information systems (IS), information sciences, information security, information assurance (IA), mission assurance, critical infrastructure security, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), industrial internet of things (IIoT) and internet of things (IoT), etcetera. 

Has performed work in the Middle East, East Africa, Europe, Hawaii, and throughout the continental United States. Has delivered cyber IT or ICS OT security services or support for the US Navy, US Marine Corps, NSA, Siemens, FERC, FHFA, US Patent & Trademark Office, and various private sector asset owners, product vendors, EPCs, system integrators and others. Has worked across several sectors and asset verticals such as defense industrial base including intelligence agencies, semiconductor radio communications manufacturing, pharma manufacturing, pulp, paper and consumer goods manufacturing, oil, gas, electric, buildings and facilities, maritime, water and wastewater, hospitals, airfields, satellite ground stations, emergency operation centers etcetera. 

  Areas of Expertise and Interest:

• Cybersecurity IT and ICS OT IoT

• RMF, DIACAP, NIST (SP 800-53, 82, 160, CSF etc.), UFC 4-010-06,

ISA/IEC 62443, ISA84.00.09, NERC CIP, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS

• Mission Assurance, Risk, Vulnerability, and Threat Assessments

• Vulnerability Management, Scanning, and Analysis

• Systems Design, Testing and Validation

• Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), Site Acceptance Test (SAT), User

Acceptance Testing (UAT), Defect Testing, System Validation

• Data Visualization, Threat Modeling, and Attack Mapping

• Plan of Actions & Milestones (PO&AM) and Roadmaps

• Standards, Regulations, Directives, Orders, Memos, National Security

• SAP ERP

• Systems Analyst, Security Analyst, Information Assurance Officer (IAO)

and Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE)
 

  Degrees:

Penn State University: Masters in Homeland Security – Information Security and Forensics

Penn State University: Bachelors in Information Sciences and Technology – Systems Integration & Application 

Certifications:

CompTIA Pentest+ce 

Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) 

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) 

CompTIA Security+ce

 Intermediate US Navy Validator (former) 

OSHA 30 General Industry (expired)

 Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO) (expired)