Matthew Walker

An IT Security and Education professional for over 20 years, Matt served as the Director of the Network Training Center and the Curriculum Lead/Senior Instructor for the local Cisco Networking Academy on Ramstein AB, Germany. After leaving the US Air Force, Matt served as a Network Engineer for NASA’s Secure Network Systems (NSS), designing and maintaining secured data, voice and video networking for the Agency. Soon thereafter, Matt took a position as Instructor Supervisor and Sr. Instructor at Dynetics, Inc., in Huntsville, Alabama, providing on-site certification awarding classes for ISC2, Cisco, and CompTIA, and after two years came right back to NASA as the IT Security Manager for UNITeS, SAIC, at Marshal Space Flight Center. He has written and contributed to numerous technical training books for NASA, Air Education and Training Command, US Air Force, and commercially, and continues to train and write certification and college-level IT and IA Security courses. Matt holds numerous commercial certifications, including CEHv7, CPTS, CNDA, CCNA, and MCSE. After two years as the IT Security Manager for Lockheed Martin at Kennedy Space Center, Matt is currently a Security Engineer for Hewlett Packard.