Brendan Eliason

About Brendan Eliason

25+ years of business and development experience at a manager/owner level including consulting with national and international clients to scope business needs, provide expert technical advice and agreement implementation-20+ years of professional experience in Behavioral Science-based training and education including consumer education, industry presentations and internal staff training. Responsible for full conception, technical research, stakeholder consultation and development of all training material as well as delivery-20+ Years of compliance in highly-regulated industries. Working experience in ISO, HIPAA, GxP/FDA, TTB, ABC and US Customs. Familiarity with PCI, GDPR, NIST, COBIT and SOC/SOC2-15+ years of applied LEAN management experience designing infrastructure to optimize for iterative improvement, identifying actionable metrics and analyzing sales/marketing/production data to drive decision making-4+ years of IT and Cybersecurity experience with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform core security functions to identify and address potential threats, attacks and vulnerabilities. General knowledge of EDR, SSO, MFA, OSINT, Kali Linux, routing protocols, Wire Shark, SIEM technologies and Incident ResponseI am passionate about applying modern CyberSecurity technologies through the lens of my 25+ years of start-up and small business development experience. I believe that for security to be truly successful it must be implemented in a way that it becomes part of the fundamental fabric of a business and that this can only happen by understanding the structure, context and culture of a company.

Experience

1. Red Team Tech Lead

   Brown Brothers Harriman

   Aug 2024 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

Education

• Merritt College Cybersecurity Program

  Infrastructure Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

• Holberton School

  Computer Science

  2019

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  B.S., Viticulture

  1993 — 1999

Skills

• Winemaking
• Wine
• Restaurants
• Wineries
• Wine Tasting
• Event Planning
• Food
• Marketing
• Vineyard
• Alcoholic Beverages
• Beer
• Key Account Management
• Sales
• Event Management
• Purchasing
• Beverage Industry
• Food Pairing
• Viticulture
• Food & Beverage