Paul Berryman

Passionate educator, content developer, and security enthusiast

Houston, TX, United States

Details

Education: EdD

Learning, Design, and Technology

University of Houston

MS CS

Information Security

James Madison University

BS

Aerospace Engineering

University of Oklahoma

Experience: 2023 : Present

Brown & Brown Insurance

Information Security Awareness Lead

Prepare and conduct cybersecurity introductory course to university students new to security, considering changing careers, or advancing their career. Instruction through virtual synchronous classes and virtual labs.

2022 :

ThriveDX

Cyber Security Lead Instructor

I help organizational leaders who dream of well-educated users find ways to train and provide security awareness that changes behaviors and reduces the element of human risk.

2022 :

BIT School

Owner, Lead Educator

Sarcasm sold here!

2018 :

Truly Horrible Things

Co-Owner

Selected book, created presentations, to instruct Master of Security Management graduate students. Topics include network security and data privacy. Assigned grades and prepared exams using Blackboard LMS.

2019 :

UHD Marilyn Davies College of Business

Adjunct Faculty

Company: Brown & Brown Insurance

Years of Experience: 15

Skills auditing, Career Management, CISSP, Communication, Computer Repair, computer security, Customer Service, dod, Employee Training, Entrepreneurship, Identity & Access Management (IAM), information assurance, Information Security, IT Security Assessments, leadership, Marketing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, network security, Physical Security, Presentations, Presentation Skills, Product Promotion, program management, Project Management, risk assessment, risk management, Sales, Security, Security Awareness, security clearance, Security Training, Stakeholder Management, teaching, Third-Party Vendor Management, Training, Two-factor Authentication, vulnerability assessment, Web Design, Written Communication

About Paul has a passion for security, education, and bad puns, bringing them together whenever possible. He has spent the last 2 decades protecting people from the usual suspects of hackers, criminals, and bored teenagers and is focused on teaching how to connect with people through storytelling and energizing presentations to change behaviors. He enables organizations to train their users and reduce the element of human risk.

Prior to working in security and education, Paul had 6 years of swashbuckling adventures with the US Navy. He’s a big fan of colleges, having attended 7 different ones. He most recently earned a doctorate in education and teaches technology content to high schoolers, college students, and adults. He's figured out that strong security starts with teaching how to behave online. It isn’t rocket science, but just in case he has a degree in that, too.