Brian Castello Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Manages four teams of cyber security professionals in various geographic locations with tasks that include:
• Provide mentorship, planning, reporting, performance evaluations and long-term strategic skill development for on premise and cloud environment for five direct reports
• Resource management, budgeting, and operational development for an actionable five-year plan enabling the next generation of cyber operations
• Leads cyber protection teams in site assessments, threat hunt… Show more
• Leads cyber protection teams in site assessments, threat hunt operations and forensic investigations ensuring consistent high-quality security recommendations for mission critical systems increasing the survivability.
• Oversaw response teams for breaches and hacks within state agencies. Highlights include leading quick reaction team for the State of California and providing solutions for the SolarWinds hack that allowed for state.

Santa Ana, California, United States

• Spearheads innovative strategies across multiple departments, such as
• Implementing automated responses to leaked credentials by using threat intelligence sources, Identity Account Management and XSOAR. Successfully reduced response time from days to minutes of reported leaked credentials
• Leading incident response efforts for exposed credentials, log4j and dark web concerns
• Works with compliance teams to ensure adherence to SOX, PCI-DSS and other security standards
• Frequently… Show more
• Frequently conducts internal red team assessment of insecure protocols to determine the threat surface area by using a collection of native and third-party tools

Pasadena, CA

• Project managed technical projects for NASA JPL, NASA GSFC, NOAA, and DoD Agencies from network assessments to development of secure coding practices while ensuring the activities were aligned with business goals to.
• Cultivated and maintained relationships with managers, directors, and security professionals of the customer’s organization, defines issues and concerns, and worked with many technical teams to execute and deliver.
• Cultivated and maintained relationships with managers, directors, and security professionals of the customer’s organization, defines issues and concerns, and worked with many technical teams to execute and deliver.
• Developed and executed Concept of Operations for “first of its kind” security assessment of a live space network finding unexplained network activity and critical misconfigurations. Quickly identified the critical.
• Collaborated with NASA stakeholders on cybersecurity mission assessments that led to architectural studies that ultimately enhanced network security across the enterprise
• Concurrently managed four teams to provide compliance subject matter expertise, survey networks and recommendations, and to determine active or future threats to information systems based on Statements of Work and.

Palo Alto, CA

Bs, Ms, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Poly Sat, LEAP, Engineering Ambassadors, Eta Kappa Nu

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