Leadership Experience

Scott Russ

  • ON Semiconductor is a Fortune 500 semiconductor supplier company based in Phoenix, AZ with operations in 15 countries. Its 31,000 employees produce an annual revenue of over $8 billion. Founded in 1999, ON Semiconductor was originally a spinoff of Motorola’s Semiconductor Components Group. It has acquired over 20 other semiconductor manufacturers and manages them all as subsidiaries under a single security umbrella. Its unique composition makes it a very complex technology environment with a vast threat landscape.

    • Served as the Director of Global Security Operations during which time I was responsible for:

    • Overseeing all aspects of day-to-day security monitoring and response.

    • Serving as incident commander security events anywhere around the globe.

    • Coordinating security monitoring and active defense infrastructure across all subsidiaries.

    • Prioritizing and reporting cyber risk to executive management and recommending mitigation strategies.

  • Designed a co-location environment to continually stream Reuters stock data from exchanges to customer-facing brokers as quickly as possible for timely trades. The design included the use of multi-cast streaming technology and QoS network prioritization rules.

  • Designed and built core data center routing systems capable of withstanding multiple failures across geographically diverse locations. Designs incorporated many different technology concepts including:

    o Complex spanning-tree and VTP configurations

    o Multiple routing protocols (EIGRP, BGP, OSPF) depending on location or function.

    o Multiple load-balancing techniques and configurations.

    Load Balancer modules built into hardware.

    • Weighted round-Robin.

    • Least connection.

    • Resource based (adaptive).

    DNS load balancing with sophisticated health checks

    • Flag file values.

    • Specific query-return URLs.

  • Designed and built sophisticated web proxy environment for local, remote, and guest users.

    o Integrated 802.1x authentication results to determine path based on VLAN placement.

    o Implemented GRC tunnels for environments that needed additional internal security on web connections.

    o Synchronization of corporate rules to external proxy for remote users.

    o Configuration of remote user proxy determination based on geographic location.

  • Designed and built multi-tenant VPN head-end infrastructure used for B2B connections, remote employees, temporary contract workers, and remote support. Environment included:

    o Support for multiple remote encryption methods.

    o Support for multiple remote routing protocols.

    o Isolation of traffic between environments.

  • RSA Security Analytics (Netwitness) SIEM custom configuration.

    o Configuration of custom log parsers in log decoder hardware for unique customer environments.

    o Complex rule creation via the Event Stream Analysis module for SIEM alerts.

    o Configuration of Malware Analytics module including integration into customer sandbox environments.

  • RSA ECAT endpoint threat detection customer setup.

    o Custom threat intelligence feed configuration.

    o External component setup per customer requirements (SYSLOG, SMTP, SA integration, etc.).

  • • Setup forward-deployed air defense communications systems for Marine Air Support Squadrons worldwide.

    • Troubleshot and repaired UHF radio communications issues in high-pressure, life-threatening situations.

    • Troubleshot and repaired issues with cryptographic cyphers and frequency hopping SINCGARS (Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems) technology.