Paul Glidden

About Paul Glidden

With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, I specialize in enhancing organizational security maturity and reducing risks across enterprise ecosystems. At Procore Technologies, I have focused on strategic risk management and security architecture, contributing to secure acquisition integrations, improved endpoint security, and stronger authentication frameworks. My work emphasizes balancing robust security measures with operational efficiency. Certified as a CISSP(inactive) and Open FAIR™ practitioner, I bring expertise in risk management and strategic partnerships. My mission is to enable businesses to navigate evolving cyber threats while fostering secure growth. As part of my role, I collaborate across teams to implement scalable security solutions that align with organizational goals and ensure operational resilience.

Experience

1. Security Architect

   Procore Technologies

   Apr 2021 — Present · WI, US

   Created the foundation for strong security through the due diligence and integration of 6 acquisitions with one being highly complex. Reduced endpoint security risks and enabled interoperability with other security platforms through a cost-neutral approach by recommending, and securing buy-in for new user endpoint management systems. Decreased risks and reduced cost associated with vendor evaluation by partnering with a cross-functional team to right-size the vendor due diligence process, integrating risk as a key factor. Strengthened authentication security in workforce access management. Collaborated with engineering and operations teams to build a strategy to support device trust. Created a framework to support bring your own device (BYOD) and aligned trust requirements with criticality of resources being accessed. Improved consistency and agility in preparing security advice for system implementations by establishing guardrail security requirements for various types of systems based on data classification. Partnered with engineering to build out a methodology for using existing tools to automate workforce access provisioning. Led effort to POC SSE for workforce access control. Partnered with product and IT engineering teams to build and evaluate GenAI for usage in Procore product and corporate teams.

Education

• Bemidji State University

  BS

  1992 — 1999

Skills

• Information Security
• Oracle Access Manager
• Unix
• Solution Architecture
• Java
• Weblogic
• Oracle Identity Manager
• Identity Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Infrastructure
• Integration
• Sql
• Visio
• Middleware
• Software Development
• Java Enterprise Edition
• IT Strategy
• Architecture
• Systems Analysis
• Linux
• Enterprise Software