Connie Bragg

About Connie Bragg

Cybersecurity professional who excels at strong relationship skills, being a self-starter, driven leader who is innovative and excellent with details. Balanced approach to problem solving in cybersecurity (or pretty much anything) combined with long term public policy and government relations to produce desired results using collaborative leadership. Work entails securing Enterprise cloud assets incorporating comprehensive reviews accounting for threat and vulnerability management, infrastructure, compliance, and remediation of applications in cloud. Additional facets of work role encompass workforce development by serving in a leadership role for AT & T\'s employee group focused on cybersecurity through development of professional growth curriculum, facilitating mentoring program and the creation of cybersecurity educational awareness campaigns. Advocate for promoting careers in cybersecurity as an integral part of developing and launching the Cybersecurity Career Ambassador program under the guidance of NIST NICE which encourages the promotion of careers in cybersecurity across diverse audiences.

Experience

1. Lead Cybersecurity

   AT&T

   Apr 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Responsible for public cloud cybersecurity areas across products, services, infrastructure, networks, and/or applications while providing protection for AT & T, our customers and our vendors/partners. Work with senior team members on various projects relating to the protection of devices, customers, assets, data, information technology, and networks. Responsibilities include ideation, testing, proof of concept and support for various cyber related projects. Develop policies and procedures to minimize network intrusion, malware events and vulnerability issues for internal and external customers. Apply measures to block malicious code and applications including forward looking research, planning and strategy to strengthen AT & T\'s stance against future cyber security threats and enhance mitigation techniques and technology solutions. Ensure the successful complex cloud migrations for OSS/BSS application through guidance to delivery owners and their designated SMEs through providing documentation on security control frameworks for cloud migrations. Additionally, manage public cloud CSO program timelines, budgets, document repository, issue escalation, future enhancements, and executive dashboard reporting.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  MPA, Public Administration

  2003

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor's degree, Women's Studies

• Champlain College

  Certification, Cyber Security

  2016 — 2019