Gary Halstead Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, US

• Proven global security and intelligence leader with over a decade of experience managing, developing, and executing both tactical and strategic programs to mitigate potential risks and insider threats.
• Lead complex cross-functional projects that require an in-depth understanding of multiple security domains.
• Responsible for the development, testing, deployment, operation and evolution of the Data Loss Prevention program & managing the team of analysts and engineers who support it. (Network, Endpoint, Email, Secure File.
• Designed policies, procedures, and controls to meet industry regulations related to the security and safeguarding of internal confidential data, while collaboratively addressing the needs of diverse, stakeholders..
• Oversaw company-wide security training and monthly simulated phishing campaigns to help educate users.
• Assisted in development and improvement of the InfoSec strategy, framework & threat modeling. (NIST, ISO)

San Jose, CA, US

• Led the global implementation, administration and evolution of the entire DLP stack both on-prem and cloud, including network, endpoint, Email, secure file transfer and CASB.
• Utilized multiple technologies across the DLP infrastructure to design, develop, and implement policies and rules in an effort to secure critical data from insider threats, cyberattacks, and accidental leaks.
• Played an integral role on the Insider Threat Team managing alerts and leading weekly incident review meetings.
• Supervised and mentored incident analysts to ensure accuracy through the detection and investigation process.
• Designed and implemented companywide forced encryption of removable storage with an exception policy.
• Helped support and remediate security audits and risk assessments.

• Responsible for the scope of all residential and corporate projects, including managing overall processes from new client acquisition, client relations, and customer service, accounting, sub-contractors, and suppliers’.

San Jose, CA, US

• Provided a senior level of assistance for our customer support call center and second-level PC technicians that supported 2,500 users in the US and abroad.
• Spearheaded complete lifecycle of several key IT projects aimed at achieving defined business goals.
• Delivered cost-effective and fault-tolerant technical solutions to resolve common and uncommon problems that ultimately increased productivity for lower tiers of support.

• Generated sales by delivering top-notch services to key corporate sales accounts.
• Managed overall aspects regarding resource planning and procurement for department.
• Delivered effective guidance and direction to seven team members in PC assembly and configuration center.