Greg Blana

About Greg Blana

Visionary cybersecurity leader with twenty-five years experience leading Information Security (InfoSec) strategic initiatives. Recent accomplishments include defining, implementing, and leading strategy and architecture programs to enable digital transformation resulting in secure hybrid cloud deployed business solutions. I’m passionate about enabling cybersecurity success with clearly defined, communicated, and implemented strategy.

Experience

1. Senior Security Architect

   Costco IT

   Sep 2021 — Present · Issaquah, WA, US

   Senior Security Architect Defined, implemented, and lead Information Security Organization (InfoSec) leadership governance framework.Led the definition, implementation, and operation of InfoSec strategy framework, process, procedures, and deliverables (e.g, strategy and formal position documents) for evolving, approving, and publishing InfoSec\'s strategies to provide direction and guidance for security and digital transformation imperatives (e.g, zero trust, hybrid cloud, cybersecurity mesh). Defined and implemented cross functional InfoSec architecture program; led activities to define InfoSec architect roles, define and implement as-is security services architecture framework (e.g, templates, guidance, artifacts, process and procedures).Established and currently leading InfoSec activity to partner with Enterprise Architecture (EA) and business stakeholders to define business solution architecture and artifacts to provide the security controls and guidance enabling hybrid cloud deployments.

Education

• Marine Corp Computer Science School, Quantico VA

  Military Technical School, Computer Science

  1979 — 1980

Skills

• Is Architecture
• IT Project Management
• Pki
• Iam
• Integration
• Software Development
• Security
• Testing
• Enterprise Software
• Information Security
• Web Services
• Infrastructure
• Javascript
• High Availability
• Cissp
• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Project Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Itil
• Linux