Christopher Ashby Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, De

◆ SCOPE: Steer the development of cybersecurity strategy and roadmaps in partnership with cross-functional leadership stakeholders. ◆ ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS:➟ Appointed interim global CISO at Fresenius Medical Care charged with overseeing enterprise information, cyber, and technology security functions, developing, implementing, and enforcing robust security policies to ensure the protection of critical data.➟ Spearheaded the design and execution of 26 next-generation cybersecurity capabilities enterprise-wide.➟ Created the company’s 1st global 24x7 security operations center enabling the investigation and management of cyber activities via central team to improve the security posture.➟ Teamed with HR to establish 2 new cybersecurity teams.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

◆ SCOPE: Preserving and enhancing the reputation and quality of the School through strategic review of credit and noncredit offerings, as well as helping build value to the business community.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

◆ SCOPE: Brought on to transform an integrated global cybersecurity program, joining physical, cyber, network operations, and cyber threat intelligence into a single team. ◆ ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS:➟ Captured $2.5M in annual cost savings by reducing dependencies on 3rd-party services and implementing a talent acquisition pipeline in partnership with regional colleges.➟ Established and led a 13-member incident response, threat hunting, purple team, and cyber hygiene program.➟ Reduced configuration and software weaknesses by teaming with stakeholders across the IT enterprise to identify and resolve security issues.➟ Collaborated with executive leaders to define, develop, and execute risk management and mitigation strategies in alignment with established benchmarks.➟ Drove continuous process and performance improvement to cybersecurity incident response methodologies and procedures.➟ Recognized for performance and success, receiving the Living Value Award for delivering online safety education for staff and family members during Cyber Security Awareness Month.

New York, Ny, Us

◆ SCOPE: Managed the development of a long-term strategy while leading a highly talented group of technology engineers, data scientists, security analysts, and threat researchers charged with serving clients across the banking, entertainment, and government verticals. ◆ ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS:➟ Established and built a 24-member cybersecurity fusion center from the ground up, one of the largest globally, holding full accountability for integrating an existing security operations center with a network operations center, cyber threat intelligence, staff, and processes to identify threats, limit exposure, and reduce response times 27%.➟ Delivered daily threat briefings for high-value clients, encompassing detailed threat-actor assessments, TTPs, and risk reduction mediation plans.➟ Partnered with C-suite executives, including the CISO, CSO, CIO, and CTO to advise and support city agencies in managing cybersecurity operations and threats.

New York, Ny, Us

◆ SCOPE: Structured and built the 1st global security operations team to secure broadcast events. ◆ ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS:➟ Delivered operational intelligence to remote teams to reduce information security risk.➟ Mitigated risk against emerging and potential threats through the delivery of routine business readiness intelligence. ➟ Bolstered transparency into the security landscape at the executive level by generating threat metrics, advisories, and daily threat briefings to support informed decision-making while effectively ensuring the safety and security of information.➟ Realized zero production disruptions by administering a $6M budget used to create core cyber capabilities, develop a hybrid staffing model of security practitioners, and manage security service providers.➟ Launched the 1st bug bounty program, inviting hackers and penetration testers to evaluate the security posture of publicly accessible resources and delivering 100% visibility into runtime vulnerability and application exposure.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed a team of security analysts responsible for proactively identifying threats to the environment, delivering remediation guidelines and business readiness intelligence the CBS global network and content. Created and distributed threat metrics, advisories, and daily threat briefings that clearly articulated the security landscape to executives.

New York, Ny, Us

Acted as a liaison to the compliance group providing security architecturereviews of environments, platforms, and point solutions to ensure alignment to risk management expectations.

Chief Information Security Officer (Ciso) Certificate

Graduate Certificate Program, Cybersecurity: Managing Risk In The Information Age

Cybersecurity Certificate Program, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management