Timothy Kentopp

Main Research and Teaching Interests

Interests include the rapid development of standards-based tech and cyber curriculum, public network exposures, user-friendly forensic methods, APT countermeasures, and resilient technology suitable for disaster response.

Biography

Professor Kentopp began his professional interest in cybersecurity working with top secret cryptography in Faraday cages during the Cold War. In the early 90s, he worked with the US Department of Education as a Christa McAuliffe Fellow to implement classroom and Internet technology in underrepresented public-school districts. Professor Kentopp pursued advanced certifications as a systems engineer who designed, installed, configured, and overhauled corporate technology infrastructure, including complete data centers, core and network backbones, scalable redundant storage, and custom mission-critical high-performance computing solutions (thousands of users, E911 integration, etc.).

As CIO and CTO of Voorhees College, he pioneered the first HBCU internship program funded by the US government focused on technology and cybersecurity competencies and certifications. In 2009, Professor Kentopp became a member of the Executive Advisory Board for the SANS Institute, a research and education organization that certifies cybersecurity expertise in accordance with federal and international standards (FISMA, ISO). In 2016, Professor Kentopp joined UVI faculty to bring twenty-five years of industry experience to the classroom, and to research practical methods to detect and mitigate public network exposures and exploits. He and his wife Michelle each belong to large, exotic families and were recently adopted by a local feline.