Erin D. Hughes is an Information Security Professional. He is a Principal Consultant, for Mandiant Professional Service which helps to respond company’s needs with deploying and administering Cyber Security equipment to prevent and respond to cyber-attacks.

Additionally Erin has volunteered in a number of disaster areas such as helping to remove debris after the earth quakes in Kumamoto Japan, flooding in Baton Rouge Louisiana and most recently in Hurricane Harvey in Houston were he volunteered at Willowfork Volunteer Fire Department, worked on boat crews in the Energy Corridor and assisted with the demolishing multiply houses in the Houston and Katy area.

Erin has worked in the computer industry for 20 years, on a variety of networks and environments all over the world including China and Singapore as well as working in Japan as a Linux and Unix administrator for over 8 years. He holds certifications in Project Management, Windows, Linux and is an Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect.

Erin served as an active duty Marine from 1991 and was a Reconnaissance Marine in 2nd SRIG as well as a TOW gunner in 4th Marine TOW Platoon where he left active duty as a Sergeant in 1997.