Jason Merkel

Founder and Strategic Advisor @3fold Solutions, Llc

Founder and strategic security advisor providing information security services to organizations seeking to simplify their views on security- Partner with executives as CISO / trusted advisor to establish, maintain, and improve security management programs, ensuring they are designed to protect against contemporary threats and are aligned with business needs- Development of security program improvement plans to include disaster recovery planning and testing, auditing, risk analysis, business resumption planning, contingency planning, advanced threat protection, monitoring and incident response, adversary eviction and remediation, supply chain security, email and phishing protection, ransomware protection, security awareness and training programs, application security management programs, cloud security and code migration, multi-factor authentication, intellectual property loss protection, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Operations Center (SOC) integration- Provide certification and authorization services to organizations seeking NIST, RMF, and FedRAMP compliance approval. Engagements include categorizing information types resident on systems and/or products to identify applicable security controls, implementation and testing of security controls pertaining to people / process / technology, security risk assessment, tracking of system / product vulnerabilities, and reporting- Provide Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) assessment services to organizations to ensure NIST SP 800-171 compliance for DFARS 25••••••12 regulation.