Joe Dimino

Joe Dimino, CISSP, has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Joe currently works at Rapid7 as the Manager of Customer Advisors, a role they have held since February 2022. In this position, Joe serves as a trusted advocate for customers, providing tailored mitigation recommendations, threat awareness reporting, and discussing IT security initiatives.

Prior to their role at Rapid7, Joe worked at Rolta AdvizeX as a Delivery Consultant from 2017 to 2019. During this time, they led a PCI Compliance project for a manufacturer and developed strategies for selecting appropriate PCI SAQ, providing business options for each.

From 2016 to 2017, Joe worked as a Principal Consultant- Security at Forsythe Technology. In this role, they improved the maturity of Patch and Configuration Management programs for a healthcare client, aligned with NIST. Additionally, they developed hardening standards and baselines for Windows servers for a national health insurance provider.

Before joining Forsythe Technology, Joe served as an Associate-Cybersecurity Strategist/Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton from 2014 to 2016. During their time there, they led a PCI Compliance engagement for a manufacturer/retailer accepting online payments and provided strategic direction for incident review and escalation processes.

From 2010 to 2014, Joe worked as a Senior Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies. In this role, they developed security designs for VMware environments, conducted virtualization security impact assessments for a large healthcare services company, and provided project security support for a major US telecom company.

Joe started their career in 2000 as a PC Analyst at Lockheed Martin and later worked as an Information Watch Officer at General Dynamics, where they detected and responded to various security threats. In 2007, they joined Amdocs as an Information Security Analyst, where they established a vulnerability scanning program and reduced remediation time for high-risk vulnerabilities.

Overall, Joe Dimino has demonstrated expertise in IT security, incident response, PCI compliance, patch and configuration management, and virtualization security throughout their career.

Joe Dimino, CISSP holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Economics from Elizabethtown College. Joe obtained their CISSP certification in May 2009 from (ISC)². In addition to their formal education, they have also obtained the InsightIDR Certified Specialist certification from Rapid7 in April 2019. Joe Dimino also holds additional certifications such as A+, Cloud University from Rackspace Cloud University, ITIL Foundation, MCSE (Windows 2000) from Microsoft, NET+ from CompTIA, ServiceNow Partner Presales (SecOps & GRC) from ServiceNow, Tenable Certified Security Sales Engineer from Tenable, and VA-CSP (Certified Security Practitioner) from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.