Ricardo Bastos

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ABOUT RICARDO BASTOS

I\'m a Cybersecurity Engineering Manager with over 20 years in IT and 10+ years in security leadership, currently leading a team of cybersecurity engineers at TELUS across Zero Trust, network security, and secure connectivity programs.My career has spanned IT, OT, cloud, and large enterprise environments, giving me a rare end-to-end view of how security actually gets built and broken in the real world.The defining moment in that career was leading a global ransomware recovery across assets in seven countries at Sierra Wireless. Restoring operations under pressure, across time zones, with business continuity on the line was an experience that fundamentally shaped how I think about resilience, not as a framework exercise, but as something organizations either have or discover they don\'t have at the worst possible moment.At EY, I directed NIST CSF assessments for critical infrastructure clients and designed incident response playbooks for large enterprises, translating complex risk into decisions executives could actually act on.Some measurable outcomes from my work- Reduced critical vulnerabilities by over 50% through an enterprise-wide vulnerability management program- Improved mean time to detection by 40% after implementing a 24x7 SOC with CrowdStrike- Advised a Crown corporation through a full cybersecurity program transformationI hold CISSP, CISM, and CCSP certifications and bridge the gap between technical depth and executive decision-making.I also take on select advisory engagements with mid-market organizations looking to assess their ransomware readiness and build practical remediation roadmaps. If that\'s a conversation worth having, I\'m easy to reach.