Adam (Ads) Dawson

Staff Security Engineer at Cohere

Adam (Ads) Dawson has a strong background in security engineering and technical support. Adam (Ads) currently works as a Senior Security Engineer at Cohere since March 2023. Before that, they were a Senior Security Engineer at Sauce Labs from August 2021 to February 2023. Adam (Ads) also served as a Senior Escalation Engineer and Technical Support Expert 2 at Fortinet from March 2021 to August 2021 and from September 2018 to March 2021, respectively. Prior to Fortinet, Adam worked as a Senior Network Security Engineer at Vodafone from March 2017 to August 2018. Adam (Ads) also held various positions at Redcentric, including Network, Security, and Voice Engineer, Technical Support Lead, Senior Technical Support Engineer, and Service Desk Specialist (Apprentice) from November 2015 to March 2017, May 2015 to October 2015, October 2014 to May 2015, and March 2013 to September 2014, respectively.

Adam (Ads) Dawson's education history is as follows:

In 2013, Adam attended the Cisco Networking Academy and completed the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Professional Competence for IT and Telecoms Professionals. This program focused on developing professional competence in the IT and telecoms industry.

From 2023 to 2024, Adam enrolled in Hola Spanish Classes to study Spanish language and literature. The degree obtained from this institution is not specified.

In 2023, Adam also attended Willis College and completed the Red Team Penetration Testing Fundamentals & Ethical Hacking Strategies program. This program focused on offensive security and red teaming strategies.

Adam has obtained various additional certifications throughout their education and career:

- In April 2023, they obtained the API Security Fundamentals certification from APIsec University.

- In March 2023, they obtained two certifications from Willis College: Red Teaming: Ethical Hacking and Strategies, and Red Teaming: Penetration Testing Fundamentals.

- In January 2023, Adam obtained the API's 101 certification from Postman.

- In December 2022, they obtained the API Penetration Testing certification from APIsec University.

- In December 2022, Adam obtained the Tines Core Certification from Tines.

- In November 2022, they obtained the Cyber Threat Intelligence certification from SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence.

- In October 2022, Adam obtained the Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert certification from Postman.

- In September 2022, they obtained the Associate of (ISC)² certification from (ISC)².

- In March 2021, Adam obtained the eLearn Security NDP Network Defense Professional certification from eLearnSecurity.

- In July 2018, they obtained the Splunk Certified User certification from Splunk.

- In December 2016, Adam obtained the Juniper Networks Certified Associate JNCIA JN0-102 certification from Juniper Networks.

- In February 2016, they obtained the Palo Alto Networks - Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) - PAN-OS 7.0 certification from Palo Alto Networks.

- In November 2014, Adam completed the Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Professional Competence for IT and Telecoms Professionals at Leeds City, Cisco Networking College.

- In November 2014, they obtained the ITIL Foundation Level certification from ITIL Certified.

- In November 2013, Adam obtained the CCNA Exploration certification from Cisco, which included topics such as network fundamentals, routing protocols and concepts, LAN switching and wireless, and accessing the WAN.

- In June 2013, they obtained the Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 6: Certified Specialist - FMAIL FortiMail 6.2 certification from Fortinet.

- In September 2022, Adam obtained the Certified in Cybersecurity certification from (ISC)².

- In September 2022, they obtained the CompTIA Security+ certification from CompTIA.

- In July 2022, Adam obtained the WCNA Wireshark Certified Network Analyst certification from Chappell University.

It should be noted that no strong assumptions are made outside the provided information regarding Adam's education history.

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Timeline

  • Staff Security Engineer

    July 1, 2024 - present

  • Senior Security Engineer

    March, 2023