Zachary Jones

Security Advisory Director

Role
Security Advisory Director at CNA Insurance
Location
Chicago, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Zachary Jones

I am a cybersecurity professional focused on high-level cybersecurity guidance and…

Experience

  1. Security Advisory Director

    CNA Insurance

    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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