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Dr. Jacob G. Oakley (born December 6, 1987) is a computer security professional, researcher and author. He is the creator of the Counter Advanced Persistent Threat Red Teaming methodology (CAPTR Teaming) which he developed during his doctoral dissertation for Towson University. He has written three peer reviewed academic papers, three textbooks and is an aspiring fantasy author with one book completed yet to be published.

Personal Biography
Jacob grew up in the Northern suburbs of Chicago with his younger sister Elizabeth. Both siblings joined the United States Marine Corps after graduating from Lisle Senior High School. He received his first-degree black belt from The Kukkiwon and was an amateur competitor on the U.S. Marine Corps All-Marine Tae Kwon Do Team in 2007 and 2008. He currently lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife Kalina and their children Hailey and Alex.

Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Information Technology Management from American Military University in 2012

Master of Science (M.S.) in Technology Studies with a focus on Offensive Security from Eastern Michigan University in 2014

Doctor of Science (D. Sc.) in Information Technology from Towson University in 2018

Professional Biography
He has worked in computer security since 2006 when he began serving as a Special Intelligence Communicator. He specializes in offensive cybersecurity such as penetration testing, red teaming, and strategy. He deployed for 12 months to Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2009 where he was a member of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade that took Camp Bastion over from British forces, transitioning it into Camp Leatherneck. Upon returning from deployment he took orders to be a founding member in the stand up The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBER) as part of the greater stand up of U.S. CYBERCOM at Fort Meade, MD in 2010. After he ended his enlistment as a Staff Sergeant in 2013, he stayed in Maryland supporting the Department of Defense as a contractor. In 2015 he took a position performing red teaming for government and commercial customers in Huntsville where he still works as a DOD contractor in the role of Offensive Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert (SME).

DEFCON
In 2019 Jacob was a member of Team Sixgen which won the DEFCON Internet of Things (IOT) Capture the Flag (CTF).

Professional Red Teaming: Conducting Successful Cybersecurity Engagements
-       A Technical book published Apress March 9, 2019

Waging Cyber War: Technical Challenges and Operational Constraints

-       A Technical book published Apress August 14, 2019 Cybersecurity for Space: Protecting the Final Frontier

-       A Technical book published Apress March 31,2020

Fiction
The Sleeper’s Serenade

-       Complete but not yet published

The Siren’s wail

-       Writing began August 2020

Academic
Towards Improving APT Mitigation: A Case for Counter-APT Red Teaming, published in The Journal of Information Warfare, Summer 2019 (ISSN 1445-3312)

Improving Cyber Defensive Stratagem through APT Centric Offensive Security Assessment, presented at the 13th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security at the National Defense University, Washington D.C.

Improving Offensive Cyber Security Assessments Using Varied and Novel Initialization Perspectives, presented at the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery Southeast Conference

Speaking
Cybersecurity and Space presented at the 12th Annual Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software (FSW 2019) in Huntsville, Alabama from December 9th to 12th 2019

Cyber-Ninja Space Pirates presented at BSides Huntsville, AL 2020 on February 8, 2020

Cybersecurity and Space presented at the University of Alabama in Huntsville CyberBytes on March 5th, 2020

Cyberwarfare: Misconceptions and Fallacies presented at the local Infraguard Chapter april 7, 2020