Vannessa Whitney

Background

About Vannessa Whitney

Cyber security professional with 15+ years experience excelling in Leadership, Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) and Computer Network Defense (CND) supporting the Department of Defense. Leadership enabled the execution of 1,300+ cyber operations, 50+ Exploitation Analyst (EA) and Interactive Operator (IO) certifications, and teams achievement to write and release reports. Successes while performing in OCO and CND roles include: the discovery and remediation of 300+ vulnerabilities impacting endpoints, 24/7 operations surge during crisis-event resulting in the identification of cyber-effects options against 100+ targets, and the release of 65+ reports detailing technical analysis of 35+ anomalous DNS instances. I have a B.S in Cybersecurity and I am on track to complete my M.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Security in February 2026. My certifications include: CISSP, GSEC, GCIH, GPEN, Security +, Network +, CEH (inactive), CHFI (inactive). Technical Skills Exploitation & Offensive Tools Metasploit, Burp Suite, Hydra, SQLmap, BloodHound Detection & Network Forensics Wireshark, tcpdump, Zeek Network Protocols & Security TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, ARP, VLANs, Kerberos Firewall & Intrusion Detection Firewalls (iptables, pfSense), IDS/IPS (Snort)