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Walter George

@waltergeorge

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Senior cybersecurity leader driving risk-based security strategy, operations, and governance for global organizations.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior leadership role where I can drive enterprise security strategy, build high-performing teams, improve risk posture, and partner with executives to align security with business goals.

I am a seasoned cybersecurity executive with decades of hands-on experience defining and driving global security strategies, leading large onshore and offshore teams, and managing multi-million-dollar budgets to transform organizational security posture.

I have built cybersecurity, risk and governance programs from the ground up, implemented control frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001), delivered security operations and application security tooling (CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Rapid7, Varonis, Veracode, Tenable, LogRhythm), and steered compliance across NYDFS, NIST, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, and SOX.

I partner with C-level executives and business leaders to align security with business outcomes, present to executive leadership and boards, and deliver measurable improvements such as major vulnerability backlog reductions, increased endpoint coverage, and elevated security maturity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Executive Director - Cyber

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Trustmark

Apr 2020 - Present (5 years 10 months)

Provides leadership and strategic direction for cyber security operations, restructuring teams and implementing threat intelligence and security tooling to reduce incident impact and improve posture; presents quarterly to executive leadership and board.

Security Operations Threat Intelligence SIEM Endpoint Protection Vulnerability Management GRC Risk Management Security Engineering

Director - Cyber Security

StoneX Group

Aug 2019 - Apr 2020 (8 months)

Directed Security Ops, Application Security, and Security Engineering, redesigned endpoint deployment to ~99% coverage and rebuilt vulnerability management to remediate a 1.4M backlog while establishing KPIs for executive visibility.

Vulnerability Management Endpoint Security Application Security KPIs IAM GRC Security Engineering Risk Assessment

Cybersecurity Department Head

ABCs Supply

Aug 2014 - May 2019 (4 years 9 months)

Built and led a security department for a $10B+ organization, managed a $6M+ budget, raised NIST maturity from Tier 1 to Tier 3, and reduced critical/high vulnerabilities by 70% within four months.

NIST CSF Vulnerability Management SIEM LogRhythm GRC Security Awareness Vendor Risk Management

Sr. Manager, IT Governance

Millward Brown

Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 (7 months)

Led ISO 27001 control framework implementation and certification efforts, coordinated audit activities, and delivered advisory services that reduced organizational risk by over 30%.