• GuidePoint Security - Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

  • Mar 2024 - Present

• Black Hills Information Security - Director of Security Education and Community

  • Jan 2023 - Mar 2024

• Marriott Vacations Worldwide - Associate Director of Security Testing and Assurance

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2023

Find a short bio and a longer form bio below:

Short Bio

Ean Meyer is a 20-year veteran of large Enterprise IT with the last 10 years being dedicated to Information Security. His experience across several different industry verticals and large Enterprises allows him to bring a wealth of knowledge to challenging security projects.

 Ean was also an instructor at Full Sail University for five years teaching the next generation of IT and Security Engineers as a Course Director in the IT program and the Cyber Security Program. During this time, he was also the President of B-sides Orlando stepping down in 2022. He remains on the Board of Directors for that conference.

Ean has a Masters Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from WGU. He also has a BS in Information Security and an AS in Computer Network Systems as well as a CISSP certification.

Long Bio

Ean Meyer is a 20-year veteran of large Enterprise IT with the last 10 years being dedicated to Information Security. In his previous roles he worked as the Director of Security Education and Community for Black Hills Information Security. In this role he ran cybersecurity tabletop exercises for a wide variety of organizations with a focus on threat modeled and organizationally specific scenarios. At Black Hills he also worked as part of the Content & Community team to create engaging content for webinars, conferences, and the weekly news cast. Prior to this he was the Associate Director of Security Assurance and Penetration Testing for Marriott Vacations Worldwide, a $3.5B global resort company. In this role he managed a small Red Team, Secure Development Pipeline, Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Management. This included coverage for globally distributed resorts and datacenters totaling around 30k endpoints. Before this role he worked in various security capacities including team lead, compliance, security engineering, and as a NOC Engineer for many Fortune 500 companies including SunGard, Darden Restaurants, and HD Supply. His experience across several different industry verticals and large Enterprises allows him to bring a wealth of knowledge to challenging security projects.

Ean was also an instructor at Full Sail University for five years teaching the next generation of IT and Security Engineers as a Course Director in the IT program and the Cyber Security Program. During this time, he was also the President of B-sides Orlando stepping down in 2022. He remains on the Board of Directors for that conference. B-sides Orlando is part of the B-sides Framework of global information security conferences with each focused locally in different cities to encourage community engagement and develop information security professionals.

Ean has spoken at B-sides Orlando, B-sides Tampa, InfoSec World, Wild West Hackin’ Fest, as well as RSA and Black Hat as part of the Business Hall Sponsored Briefings. He’s been a panelist on many conference panels including ISC2 Congress and the DHS Cyber Security Symposium Series. Ean runs several workshops such as Advanced Cubicles & Compromises which is a tabletop incident response workshop for Wild West Hackin’ Fest and InfoSec World. He is a frequent guest on podcasts and webinars. In 2019 Ean competed in the Social Engineering Capture The Flag at Defcon 27 where he took 5th place. He also competed in the new Social Engineering Community Vishing Competition at DEF CON in 2023 where he took 8th place. During this competition he won the Best Acting in Character award for developing character-based pretexts while vishing from the soundproof booth in front of hundreds of attendees.

Ean has a Masters Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from WGU. He also has a BS in Information Security and an AS in Computer Network Systems as well as a CISSP certification.

• Western Governors University

  • Master of Science MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance - Jan 2021

• Seminole State College of Florida

  • Cisco Networking - Technical Certificate, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager - 2012

• ITT Technical Institute-Lake Mary

  • BS - Information Systems Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance - 2008

  • AS - Computer Network Systems, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications - 2005

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