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Sam Goerke

  • Adjunct Instructor, School of Information Studies

Biography

Sam is a Senior Adversarial Security Testing Engineer for Northwestern Mutual. His team is charged with acting as the “bad guys” for the organization to confirm security controls are effective. Their responsibilities include ethical hacking, red teaming, purple teaming, penetration testing, threat simulations, and other offensive security activities.

In addition to his full-time job, he also is an Adjunct Lecturer for UW-Milwaukee SOIS, teaching courses that cover information security and web application development. His primary class is INFOST 481, “Web Application Penetration Testing” in which he teaches the hands-on skillset of conducting penetration tests of modern web applications

Education

  • Masters of Science in Information Science and Technology - UW-Milwaukee (2018).
  • Bachelors of Science in Information Science and Technology - UW-Milwaukee (2017).

Certifications

  • GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
  • GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
  • GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
  • CompTIA Security+ (Sec+)

Courses Taught

  • INFOST 481: Web Application Penetration Testing
  • INFOST 325: Information Security I
  • INFOST 385: Information Security II
  • INFOST 440: Web Application Development