Layla Wall
Director of Cybersecurity - Attack Surface Reduction, Vulnerability Mgmt., Threat Intelligence, SecOps, Engineering - Value Driven - Risk Reducer - Change Agent
- Role
- Director of Attack Surface Reduction at Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Layla Wall
Clearance: Public Trust Moderate EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cybersecurity Executive…
Experience
Director of Attack Surface Reduction
Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.
Mar 2025 — Present · Indianapolis, IN, US
Lead the redesign of day-to-day operations of the vulnerability management (VM) team of a large agency under HHS. This includes management of (15+) cybersecurity professionals, coaching, time sheet reconciliation, and performance evaluations. Work with up to 32 business units to include: standardization of processes, proactively prevent vulnerability exploits, adhere to SLAs, drive actionable metrics to ensure the reduction of time and resources needed to detect, investigate, analyze and remediate vulnerabilities. This includes: executive presentations, communications, SME services, status reports, risk-based security assessments, research current/emerging threats, facilitate exception handling/waiver processing, provide process optimization recommendations, tools tuning, resetting VM priorities and escalations as needed. VM Areas Included- Vulnerability Management- Web Application Scanning (WAS)- Database Scanning- Secure Configuration Management (SCM)- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)- Compliance Reporting- Exception/Waiver Processing• Governance: Policy, SOPs/Work instructions, SLAs, RACI, threat severity matrix, strategy, roadmap, baselines, KPIs, workflows, milestones, reporting, ITIL, NIST 800.53, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF• Architecture/Engineering: VM Process & technology, Splunk ingestion and reporting, • Management & Training: Executive presentations, direct report management, cross-functional team management, capacity planning, roadshow presentations, system owner training • Threat Intelligence: CISA driven risk-based inputs and approach to drive remediation activities (active exploits & zero days)• Tools: Tenable, DBProtect, Invicti, Xpanse, SCM, Jamf, BigFix, ServiceNow, Splunk, Office365 (Office, SharePoint, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Planner)• Host Ecosystem: 50k+
Education
Cybrary
CISM
Penn State University
BA, LAS
2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate, AI & Cybersecurity: Strategies for Resilience & Defense
Ivy Tech Community College
AAS, CIS
1995
Penn State University
Certificate, Writing Social Commentary
2006
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