{"id":339,"date":"2026-05-03T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:44:07","slug":"patrick-bays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bays &#8211; Network Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Integrity. Stewardship. Continuous Growth.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These core beliefs drive me because I believe that a secure network is the foundation of any successful organization. For me, cybersecurity is not just a 9-5 job, but instead a form of digital stewardship to protect the data and privacy of others.<br><br>My experiences both in academia and in my work have shown that a single misconfigured port can compromise an entire company. Practicing how to manage these failures in a controlled environment, such as our labs, has refined my value of precision, i.e., doing it right the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity. Stewardship. Continuous Growth. These core beliefs drive me because I believe that a secure network is the foundation of any successful organization. For me, cybersecurity is not just a 9-5 job, but instead a form of digital stewardship to protect the data and privacy of others. My experiences both in academia and in my&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":28671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/patrickbays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}