Deron is passionate about building solutions for clients that help protect them from a cyber threat or cyberattack's reputational, regulatory, and financial impact. He has more than two decades of cyber and IT security experience, helping his Fortune 1000 clients build programs to remediate vulnerabilities and reduce their attack surface, leveraging machine learning and automation to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cyber operations, and enabling companies to detect and respond to cyber threats and incidents. He is as comfortable discussing cybersecurity issues and solutions with the C-suite and board as he is rolling up his sleeves and digging into them with front-line cyber/technical resources. He is also am Adjunct Faculty member at DePaul University's School of Computing and Digital Media.
Deron can speak to cybersecurity, cyber, ransomware, threat actors, cyber resilience, cyberattacks, security, cyber strategy, cyber defense, information security management and more.
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The best cyber leaders I’ve worked with fostered transparent and open communications. That goes with building trust with your peers across the organization. These leaders aren’t salespeople — they’re advocates for their programs leading with emotional intelligence while demonstrating what’s important to them. They understand their peers’ positions and use that to get buy-in and collaboration across multiple departments.
The more AI and machine learning improve, the better we get at detecting anomalous behaviors, which especially applies to fraud, insider threats, and traditional external attackers.