Benjamin Pratt
IT Security Systems Specialist at St. Cloud State University
Princeton, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Pratt is an IT security systems specialist with 14 years of hands-on experience protecting and hardening university-scale networks and services. Based in Princeton, Minnesota, he has built deep expertise in vulnerability management, perimeter and web application firewall administration, SIEM monitoring, and asset identification to reduce institutional risk. At St. Cloud State University he has led scanning and remediation efforts (Tripwire/ nCircle IP360), managed pfSense and Citrix WAFs, and coordinated audits and feasibility studies to validate security controls. He pairs technical operations with community-facing work—developing training, documentation, and escalation processes so non-technical stakeholders respond quickly to threats. Known for mentoring student technicians and improving enterprise workstation and print services, he brings practical, process-oriented solutions that scale across large campus environments. His uncommon strength is combining low-level system administration and SQL/config integration experience with security program stewardship to make secure systems usable and auditable.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Network Modeling and Simulation, minor Computer Science, Bachelor's, Network Modeling and Simulation, minor Computer Science at St. Cloud State University
Github Skills (34)
asynchronous10
svn10
nmap10
speedtest10
windows10
netcat10
linux10
security10
lua10
socket10
service-discovery10
libpcap10
pcre10
ping10
metasploit10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benpratt/security_toolbox
Jan 2012 - Dec 2022
Contributions:86 commits, 65 pushes in 11 years
benpratt/FreeBSD-System-Management
Feb 2012 - Aug 2022
Contributions:102 commits, 57 pushes, 1 comment in 10 years 7 months
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