Austin Coots

​Austin Coots, Program Manager, is responsible for cybersecurity of DoD construction-type projects worldwide. Numerous DoD organizations spanning all three U.S. military Branches as well as numerous corporations look to Austin for his cybersecurity leadership and technical excellence. The customer corporations he serves, both large and small, total over $1/4 Trillion in their combined revenue. They include most of the world’s largest system integrators, a sizeable portion of the world’s largest control system manufacturers, and numerous general contractors and prime contractors of all sizes. Prior to this role, Austin served at the flagpole of an Army Four-Star headquarters, Army Materiel Command (AMC), working to bring cyber to the forefront of operations, identifying critical assets, many of which were control systems, and taking the necessary steps to defend them from adversaries. Austin and his team have extensive technical experience developing control system architectures, hardening control systems, mitigating vulnerabilities, and providing customers with Risk Management Framework (RMF) support. They also have detailed experience with the new implementation of cybersecurity for facility related control systems through the construction frameworks of UFC 4-010-06 and UFGS 25 05 11. Austin’s team also brings experience in cyber attack and exploitation, and their knowledge of cyber offense makes them particularly adept at defending control systems.​