Edward Dennis
Edward Dennis
Remote Assistant Professor
Department
The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences
Education
D.Sc., Enterprise Information Systems - Colorado Technical University
M.S., Systems Engineering - Colorado Technical University
M.S., Information Assurance and Computer Security - Dakota State University
B.A., Management - University of Sioux Falls
A.A.S., Southeast Technical Institute
Biography
Dr. Edward Dennis loves helping others achieve their goals in their careers and education.
He has worked in Information Technology for more than 40 years. His career started in electronics in the U.S. Army as a radar tech. After the service, he worked for eight years in the field of electronics, including a year as a locomotive electrician on the railroad. In the field of Information Technology, he worked for 15 years as a Field Engineer, servicing mainframe and mid-range computers for a major computer manufacturer and service organizations. He has also worked in the role of System Administrator and Network Administrator. After getting his MSIA at DSU, he worked for the next 16 years with several government contractors as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Network and computer security and the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA).
In contracting with the federal government, Dr. Dennis has fulfilled roles as Senior Systems Engineer, Information Security Analyst, Systems Architect, Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE), and Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) for government agencies including USGS, DoT, DoD, and NASA.
Contact
Office Location: Remote
Phone: (605) 256-5838
Email
Website
Assistant Professor teaching Networking, Windows 2019 Server, and Cyber Security curriculum online.
Security Issues with the Internet of Things (IoT), Model Based System Engineering (SMBE), Air-Gapping network systems, and Zero Trust Networking
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KBROne Award 2020
He has published papers on “Project success factors when implementing and maintaining Information Technologies,” “Performance Evaluation of Lane Correction Module Stress Test.”
- Dr. Dennis has presented at local and national conferences and symposiums on Zero Trust Networking, Internet of Things, Cloud Security Checklist, System and Software Security Development Lifecycle, Vulnerability Management, and Wireless Networking.
- Doctoral Dissertation: Project Success Factors when implementing and Maintaining Information Technologies. ProQuest March 5, 2015
- Presented at the Nebraska IT Symposium 5/19/2022, Nebraska IT Symposium, on the subject of Zero trust and Air-gapping Networks
- Presented at Siouxland IT Symposium 11/3/2016, Nebraska IT symposium 5/16/2017, and SGT Technology Day, Houston Texas 10/30/2017, on the subject “Security and the Internet of Things”
- Presented at Siouxland IT Symposium: Cloud Security Checklist 11/2/2017
- Presented at Siouxland IT Symposium: Systems and Software Secure Development Lifecycle 11/1/2015
- Presented at Siouxland IT Symposium: Vulnerability Management 11/6/2014
- Assisted in writing White Papers published by Department of Transportation on subject of Cybersecurity, Compliance, Incident Response, and EVCS security.