Horacio Ballinas
Director of Global Cloud Security @ KPMG | MBA
- Role
- Director of Global Cloud Security at KPMG
- Location
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Horacio Ballinas
With over 20 years of experience in enterprise business sales, business development, and product management, I am an accomplished leader in the field of cloud security, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and big data analytics. As the Global Head of Cloud Security at KPMG, I lead an international team of security architects focused on selecting, deploying, and supporting security solutions across 130 countries and over endpoints and network/IOT/OT devices.My mission is to deliver cutting-edge security products and services that meet the diverse and complex needs of our customers, partners, and stakeholders. I work directly with state-of-the art cybersecurity vendors to help drive and shape the future development and evolution of security products designed for large and sophisticated customer environments. I also leverage agile methodologies and Azure DevOps to design, plan, and implement security solutions and configurations that are scalable, reliable, and secure. I am passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and learning, and I hold multiple certificates from MIT, Stanford, Wharton, and Johns Hopkins in data science, machine learning, business, and finance.
Experience
Director of Global Cloud Security
Jan 2024 — Present · US
Leading an international team of security architects and product managers focused on selecting, deploying, and supporting security solutions across 130 countries and over 387k+ endpoints and 270k+ Network/IOT/OT devices. Focus on cloud-based security solutions and architectures, leveraging Agile framework to custom design, plan and implement security solutions and configurations to be consumed by a wide range of member firms around the world. I worked directly with Microsoft and Palo Alto Product Groups to help drive and shape the future development and evolution of security products designed for complex and large customer environments. Key projects: Data Loss Prevention, Information Protection, Security Copilot, Security Posture Management, Managed Firewall, Security for AI, and AI for Security, AI Agentic security through Agent 365, Cyera, Security Copilot.Specialized in best of breed security products: Microsoft 365 XDR Defender: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identities, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud, Defender for IoT, MDVM, MDAV, Microsoft Sentinel, Log Analytics Workspace, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud CSPM/CWP, Qualys, Wiz, Cyera Data Classification, Microsoft Purview, Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Purview: DLP, Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, eDiscovery, Communication Compliance, Insider Risk Management, Data Security Posture Management for AI, Data Classification, Security Copilot.
Education
IPADE Business School
Master of Business Administration, Management
1996 — 1998
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Electric Engineer, Telecommunications
1991 — 1996
The Wharton School
Business and Financial Modeling Certificate, Finance, General
2017 — 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certification: "Data Science: Data to Insights", Information Technology
2016 — 2016
Stanford University
Specialization in Machine Learning, Information Technology
2016 — 2017
Stanford University
Certificate: "Innovation and Entepreneurship" (In process), Business Administration and Management, General
2016 — 2017
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Data Science Specialization, Data Analytics / Machine Learning
2017 — 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data", Computer Science
2016 — 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate "Internet of Things: Roadmap to a Connected World", Information Technology
2016 — 2016
Skills
- Management
- Networking
- Salesforce.com
- Sales Operations
- Customer Retention
- Direct Sales
- Sales Process
- Wireless
- Cloud Computing
- Strategic Partnerships
- Leadership
- Mpls
- Unified Communications
- New Business Development
- Voip
- M2m
- Sales Management
- Managed Services
- Team Leadership
- B2b
- Account Management
- Mobile Devices
- Product Management
- Solution Selling
- Iot Data Analytics
- Telecommunications
- Sales
- Wireless Technologies
- Cellular Communications
- Mobile Technology
- Strategy
- Selling
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