Modern CISO Network: Board Book

Currently a board advisor and the CISO for many of the Phenomenati Group's clients, Scott excels in communicating complex security and risk topics to boards of directors, guiding strategic investments with informed, objective insights. Throughout his career, bringing "order to chaos" has driven every role Scott has played: first as an engineer, then product executive, startup founder, then analyst, board member, and most recently, as a CISO, a Data Protection Officer, and a Chief Risk Officer.

Scott is an experienced cybersecurity executive, designing security and privacy into digital transformation initiatives for his clients. With more than 35 years of technology leadership experience in cybersecurity and the broader software industry, Scott has an acute ability to understand and map organizational needs to security models, architectures, solutions, and technologies. His primary area of expertise has been information security since the late 1980s; however, Scott’s technical experience ranges from operating system kernel technologies, to the gamut of filesystem/database and info storage, to network engineering, to packaged commercial applications such as SCADA, B2B, and CRM solutions; from on-premise to cloud deployments.

Driven to deliver high impact, his leadership experience includes building and leading growth-dominated products and services teams, organizations, and startups, managing teams from 10 to 1,000. His expertise spans the system lifecycle, with a specific focus on complex systems engineering and solution roadmap planning, including operational prototyping, rapid-growth product evolution, market adaptation, derivative product strategy, and next-generation rollout and migration, for businesses ranging from startups to public Fortune 100 companies.

An influential leader and communicator, Scott has authored several thought pieces on cybersecurity, from the original "Risk Formula" to "Risk-Based Access Control" and the Cyber SA model of "Network, Mission, and Threat," to the recent "Cyber Entropy™," "Risk Level Agreements™," "5 What Imperatives™," "7 Vectors of Cyber Risk Intelligence™," "Riskility™," and the "SOC Taxonomy™."

He is a frequent speaker at industry events, is a member of several industry consortia, sits on a number of advisory boards, and has been a member of the board of directors for enswers, Inc.; Axixa Corporation; Realocity, Inc.; Protinuum, LLC; and the Boston Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.