Zachary Jones
Security Advisory Director
- Role
- Security Advisory Director at CNA Insurance
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zachary Jones
I am a cybersecurity professional focused on high-level cybersecurity guidance and…
Experience
Security Advisory Director
May 2021 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Hired, developed and led a team of 10 making up the Security Advisory, Product Security, and Remediation Management team including Chicago, London, and fully remote staff• Served as the security advisory led for 50+ large projects personally and coordinated a team to cover in excess of 200 large projects over a three-year period to ensure security alignment• Developed 30+ tactical engineering workflows for business and IT customer sets to ensure scalable, sustainable, and service-oriented delivery of security capabilities across thousands of touchpoints• Drove early-stage security efforts to build policies, standards, controls, and capabilities to support Generative AI initiatives to avoid security stifling innovation and ensuring secure adoption• Led efforts within the security engineering and technology team to plan project slate and refine backlog to present CISO-level leadership with a clear roadmap for delivery• Adopted a customer-centric and empathetic mindset within security advisory to ensure business users, customers, and IT team members had a mitigating voice to ever-evolving security restrictions• Developed and proliferated a de-centralized model for advising processes to ensure business unit coverage within existing systems most familiar to each business unit• Collaborated with legal to address shifting regulatory landscape, respond to auditor requests, advise on records management cases, and clarify security capabilities for external counsel• Launched, managed, and grew the Security Department’s Intern and New Hire program to develop a department pipeline with 14 participants to support all security domains
Education
DePaul University Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity
Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics
Whitko High School
Academic Honors Diploma
Skills
- Python
- Experimentation
- Leadership Development
- Data Analysis
- Teamwork
- C++
- Public Speaking
- Experimental Physics
- Science
- Problem Solving
- Leadership
- Microsoft Office
- Labview
- Project Management
- Research
- Strategic Planning
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