Grant Sturgis
Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense
- Role
- Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense at Granicus
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Grant Sturgis
Mission focused, results oriented, analytical and highly technical Cyber Security leader with demonstrated success managing, guiding, mentoring, and growing security teams. Passionate about effective leadership principles and practice, security operations, security engineering, security architecture, vulnerability management, detection engineering.Considerable experience with enterprise Ransomware incident response.Security Engineering: Highly effective track record in leading security engineering teams focused on SIEM, endpoint security (EDR, EPP), vulnerability management, penetration testing, data loss prevention DLP, incident response.Security Operations: Excels in establishing, maintaining, and improving technical operations processes at scale. Successful experience managing 24/7 in-sourced and outsourced Security Operations Centers (SOC) providing continuous monitoring and incident triage, handling, and response. Adept understanding of navigating complex IT infrastructure organizations for effective results in SOC investigations and response. Vulnerability Management: Extensive experience leading technical teams to operate vulnerability management tools and integrate workflows for remediation. Strong experience with demonstrating compliance for PCI, SOX, NIST and other frameworks.
Experience
Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense
Apr 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US
Education
SANS Technology Institute
FOR572: Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis, and Incident Response
University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Bachelor's degree, Finance, General
1991 — 1996
SANS Technology Institute
SEC545: Cloud Security Architecture and Operations
SANS Technology Institute
SEC511: Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General
1991 — 1996
Skills
- Digital Forensics
- Incident Response
- Cisco Technologies
- Leadership
- Firewalls
- Infrastructure
- Project Management
- Security Information and Event Management (Siem)
- Windows
- System Administration
- Network Engineering
- Networking
- Microsoft Exchange
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Management
- Active Directory
- Windows Server
- Hardware
- Vulnerability Management
- Linux
- Computer Hardware
- Network Architecture
- Network Security
- Data Center
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