Jeremy Dorrough has built his career around protecting assets in the most critical IT sectors. He started his career working in a Network Operations Security Center for the US Army. He then went on to work as a Network Security Engineer defending Dominion’s North Anna Nuclear Power Station. He also spent a few years as a Senior Network Security Engineer/Architect at Genworth Financial. Currently Jeremy works as a Client Director for Consortium Networks. He has presented at DefCon, RVASEC, UNC, JMU, ECPI, FBI Infragard and holds or has held Carnegie Mellon CISO certificate, MBA, CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC GPPA, CCSK, CCNA. Jeremy has spent over 20 years researching and implementing new ways to defend against the latest attacks. In his free time he loves spending time with his wife and two soon to be hacker children.
How to Win Budgets and Influence Stakeholders: Articulate Cyber Value to Non Technical Audiences (<– add to your schedule)
Limited budgets are a reality we all must live with. Security tools are getting pricier, and management is demanding stronger justifications for every dollar spent. Often, we in cyber struggle to explain the return on investment for all this security technology. Risk management frameworks and heat maps are not the saving grace they are made out to be. We as cyber professionals need to be fluent in financial discussions to guide the business toward informed decisions. I’ll walk you through some proven methods to bridge the communication gap between security and the business.