Christopher Prewitt

About Christopher Prewitt

Over the past 28+ years, I have acquired extensive experience in end-to-end planning and execution of robust, large-scale security, privacy, compliance, and risk management systems/solutions in Fortune 500 and environments, supported by strong customer service and technical issue resolution. I excel in designing and optimizing cutting-edge enterprise security systems and risk management.Accomplishments: Developed a global security program at AmTrust and built a global security team focused on the implementation of the security strategy while cultivating relationships with FS-ISAC, NEOCC, and others to support the threat intelligence program. Oversaw the sales support function, improved structured contracts, optimized service offerings, and delivered client engagement support at TrustedSec while providing engagement activity support for Fortune 500 clients. Created a Charter and a three-year Global IT Strategy, including policy and program management/development at Lincoln Electric while transforming the security office from reactive to proactive, providing greater organizational visibility into threats and risk. Architected and administered a $3M Disaster Recovery Re-Architecture to reduce RPO/RTO at Lincoln Electric while redesigning the data center leveraging data center standards to decrease power and cooling needs. Built an IT Security maturity model to examine strengths and weaknesses based on ISO 27002 control areas at Lincoln Electric while establishing an improvement roadmap for IT security improvements and investment.

Experience

1. Thought Leader

   Forbes Technology Council

   Jul 2022 — Present

   Sharing insights on cybersecurity with ForbesTechnology Council, an invitation-only organization for successful senior-level technology executives.

Education

• Cleveland State University

  MBA, Finance

  2011 — 2012

• Lorain County Community College

  AS, Pre-Engineering

  1995 — 1999

• Cleveland State University

  BBA, Information Systems

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Vendor Relationships
• Linux
• IT Management
• Network Architecture
• Network Security
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Technical Staff Management
• Integration
• Network Design
• Firewalls
• Cism
• Information Security Management
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Information Security
• Enterprise Security
• Management
• Infrastructure Management
• Vpn
• Security
• Project Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Cissp
• Networking
• Servers
• Cisco Technologies
• Vmware
• IT Strategy
• Data Center