Easton Kays

Easton Kays has worked in the security field since 2017. In that time, they have held roles as an Intern at the United States Department of Defense, an Information Security Intern at Ryan Specialty Group, an Information Security Analyst at Ryan Specialty Group, and currently holds roles as a Junior Security Consultant and Security Consultant at Prescient Security, a CREST Certified Web Application Penetration Testing Company. During their time as an Information Security Intern at Ryan Specialty Group, they built out a vulnerability management application to export data from Tenable and automate the ticketing process through Zendesk. Easton also built out numerous incident response plans and playbooks, as well as wrote scripts to pull detection data from Crowdstrike API in order to better store that data.

Easton Kays attended Punahou School from 2004 to 2017, graduating with a High School Diploma in Computer Science. Easton then went on to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which they completed in 2021.