Russell S.

About Russell S.

CISO, Enterprise Security Architect, Risk Manager, and IT Strategist; advocate of reasonable and balanced risk assessment and mitigation. Well-versed in risk analysis and management; considerable experience identifying, researching, and evaluating promising technologies. Influential and effective leader; excel at relationship building and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive positive change and achieve superior results. Thrive in enterprise level, fast-paced, rapidly evolving environments.My business and security background have created a diverse skill set covering design, consultation, and implementation of network, application, and server security for banks, attorneys, accountants, local and state government, education, energy, and healthcare. I have formulated custom solutions in many markets, involving integrating proprietary market-specific software with existing Linux, Windows, and Virtual environments.These projects and consulting opportunities entail communicating and creating a partnership with executives, IT managers, and small business owners. The result of these efforts is often the development, individually or jointly, of project management plans, assessment of security vulnerabilities, implementation and training on company security policies, or hardware and software cost analysis.• Perimeter and Endpoint Security, Incident Response, Security Policy, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS.• Successfully operated privately owned IT Security and Consulting practice for more than a decade. Logged more than IT Security consulting hours.• 20+ years managing network and security engineers, creating roadmaps, driving security initiatives, and aligning security standards and frameworks with overall business and technology strategies.• Vast knowledge of Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco, VMWare, Juniper, f5, Tenable, Qualys, Windows, and Linux appliances, solutions, and products.

Experience

1. CISO Senior Director, Information Security and Data Governance

   Concord

   Jan 2024 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

Skills

• Networking
• Checkpoint Security
• Virtual Server
• Windows Server
• Information Security
• F5 Bigip
• Risk Assessment
• Secure Remote Access
• Project Engineering
• Change Management
• Network Security
• Visio
• Provider-1
• Linux
• Windows 7
• Perimeter Security
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Disaster Recovery
• Secure Communications
• Vpn
• Juniper Technologies
• Security Architecture Design
• Virtualization
• Security Audits
• Juniper
• Risk Management
• Cisco Systems Products
• Information Security Management
• Data Center
• Solution Implementation
• Security
• Hipaa
• Project Delivery
• Cisco Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Red Hat Linux