George Rettas

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Managing Director - Global Head of Counter Threat Operations @ Wells Fargo
West Palm Beach, FL, US
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West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, United States
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About George Rettas

*** PLEASE FOLLOW INSTEAD OF CONNECT - HAVE REACHED THE 30K CONNECTION LIMIT ***George Rettas is an innovative and dynamic senior Cyber Security Executive with two decades of training, education, and experience in the Technology, Security, and Risk disciplines. Mr. Rettas is a remarkably astute professional with exceptional business acumen and a polished executive presence. He has a proven track record in leading and managing large IT Security Teams in sophisticated, complex environments with high transaction rates and stringent regulatory oversight. Mr. Rettas is extremely well versed in preventing, detecting, responding to and recovering from major cyber security incidents. He specializes in implementing proactive cyber security controls, leading process improvement exercises, and developing best-in-class operational cyber risk management programs based on intelligence led, threat focused, constant learning strategic models. Mr. Rettas has a reputation as a high caliber leader with the right mix of technical and business skills needed to manage large IT Security Programs in multi-channel product environments. He has extensive experience in managing large technology budgets, managing internal audits and external regulatory exams, creating business analysis and reporting functions, detecting and investigating financial fraud, and mitigating 3rd party risk. Currently, Mr. Rettas hosts Task Force 7 Radio, “The Voice of Cyber Security”, a weekly radio show with hundreds of thousands of listeners where he frequently hosts the most prolific Cyber Security professionals in the world on today’s most talked about technology topics. He is also a Senior Advisor to several Security and Technology companies. Prior to his current position, Mr. Rettas held several senior executive positions in both Citibank’s and JP Morgan Chase Bank’s Technology Departments. Mr. Rettas is a former Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he served as the original co-founder and group leader of the Newark Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force.Mr. Rettas holds a Bachelors Degree from Florida State University and a Masters Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also holds a CISO Certification from Carnegie Mellon University, an Advanced Computer Security Certification from Stanford University, and a Security Leadership Certification from Wharton Business School. Mr. Rettas has served as a guest lecturer for Harvard and MIT Universities' first Cyber Security courses.

George Rettas's Current Company Details
Wells Fargo

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Managing Director - Global Head of Counter Threat Operations
West Palm Beach, FL, US
George Rettas Work Experience Details
  • Wells Fargo
    Managing Director - Global Head Of Counter Threat Operations
    Wells Fargo
    West Palm Beach, Fl, Us
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  • Mufg
    Managing Director - Deputy Chief Information Security Officer
    Mufg Oct 2022 - Present
    Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp
    Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with more than 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,700 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has over 180,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.As the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for MUFG Americas, I am responsible for running the overall Information Security Strategy, briefing the Board of Directors on Security matters, representing the Enterprise Information Security department in company Governance Forums and Risk Committees, and overseeing the firm’s Cyber Security Operations capabilities.
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  • Mufg
    Managing Director - Global Head Of Cyber Security Operations
    Mufg May 2020 - Oct 2022
    Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp
    As the Global Head of Cyber Security Operations for MUFG, I was responsible for overseeing the firm's MUFG Threat Intelligence Center (MTIC), the Global Incident Response Team, the firm's Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), Quality Assurance, Cyber Security Investigations, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Data Security Operations, Insider Threat Operations, and the firm's Cyber Resiliency and War Gaming functions.
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  • Task Force 7 Security
    Co-Founder And Board Member
    Task Force 7 Security Mar 2020 - Present
    Task Force 7 Security is a premier Global Risk Mitigation Firm capable of implementing bespoke security solutions in the public, private, and government sectors. We solve complex problems others can’t.
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  • Task Force 7 Technologies
    Co-Founder And Board Member
    Task Force 7 Technologies Sep 2017 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Task Force 7 Technologies is currently building the world's premier Cyber Security Vertical Professional Network.
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  • Task Force 7 Radio
    Founder And Host
    Task Force 7 Radio Sep 2017 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Task Force 7 Radio is the Voice of Cyber Security around the Globe. We feature up to date insights and analysis by preeminent Cyber Security professionals on the most important Cyber Security issues affecting your life today.Although the world of Cyber Security can be complex, our focus is to explain highly technical subject matter in non-technical terms. We cover topics that are of vital interest to Cyber Security experts yet also will appeal to the novice interested in learning more about Cyber Security and new threats affecting the social, political, business, and economic concerns of our world.We explore a wide range of controversial issues that you want to miss each week. Task Force 7 Radio is broadcast live every Monday at 8 PM Eastern Time, 5 PM Pacific Time, on the Voice America Business Channel.
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  • Pace University - Seidenberg School Of Computer Science And Information Systems
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Pace University - Seidenberg School Of Computer Science And Information Systems May 2019 - Present
    New York City, New York, Us
    Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems collaborates closely with Cyber Intelligence 4U, currently has one of the most popular Cyber Security Programs in the region, and has graduated over 4,000 students in the last two years.
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  • Cybergrx
    Special Advisor
    Cybergrx May 2019 - Present
    Denver, Colorado, Us
    CyberGRX is a force multiplier for Third Party Cyber Risk Management. Our innovative solution optimizes your third-party cyber risk management program, pinpointing the highest risk vendors across your ecosystem so you can utilize the best solution to mitigate risk.
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  • Ametos Ltd
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Ametos Ltd May 2019 - Present
    Ametos is an elite Security and Strategic Solutions provider for Government, Corporations and Private Clients Worldwide.Our professionals include former Israeli, American and British operatives with broad experience in special forces, intelligence, counter terrorism, and cyber warfare. We have offices in 10 countries, located on four continents.
  • Metro One Lpsg
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Metro One Lpsg May 2019 - Present
    Staten Island, Ny, Us
    Metro One brand is a professional security services company. With our management team’s decades of combined loss prevention and security management experience, we tailor our service to fully integrate into the client’s loss prevention/security program and play a key role in obtaining their objectives, while providing a clear return on investment.Through recruiting, training, and program development, we serve as full partners in designing cost-effective solutions for our clients.
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  • Securonix
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    Securonix May 2019 - May 2020
    Addison, Texas, Us
    The Securonix platform automates security operations while our analytics capabilities reduces noise, fine tunes alerts, and identifies threats both inside and out of the enterprise.The Securonix platform delivers analytics driven SIEM, SOAR, and NTA, with UEBA at its core, as a pure cloud solution without compromise.
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  • Citi
    Managing Director - Global Information Security Department - Information Protection Directorate
    Citi Jan 2017 - May 2019
    New York, New York, Us
    Global Head Information Security Strategic Programs• Led a regulatory engagement with the OCC that led to the highest rating ever afforded a financial institution for an information security exam.• Authored the largest Information Security transformation in Citibank history resulting in the strategic alignment of operations, administrative, and programmatic resources with a focus on line of business critical applications, emerging technologies, and fiscally sound controls. • Ran the overall Intelligence Led Information Security strategy for the entire enterprise.• Oversaw the entire strategic planning cycle, including the annual threat assessment (ATA), the threat to capability assessment (T2C), the annual risk assessment (ARA), and the quarterly publication of the enterprise information security strategic plan.• Oversaw and drive the entire IS Program Management BOW entailing 4 portfolios of work, 18 programs, and 180 projects, including Data Loss Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Document Classification, Insider Threat, Application Security Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), Suspicious Activity Detection, Multi-factor Authentication, Identity and Access Management, Privileged User Access Management, the Functional ID Program, Information Security Risk Assessment Program (ISRA), the Third Party Information Security Assessment (TPISA) Program, and the Third Party Continuous Monitoring Program managing 300 people in 7 countries overseeing a $53 Million budget.• Drove the definition, development and maintenance of Citi’s Information Security Policies and Standards.• Ran a team of developers that are responsible for creating proprietary IS tools in support of all GIS programs and operations.
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  • Citi
    Managing Director - Global Information Security Department - Information Protection Directorate
    Citi Dec 2014 - Jan 2017
    New York, New York, Us
    Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)• Routinely assumed the responsibilities of the Global Head of IS in his absence.• Responsible for managing the Information Security governance process through the firm’s Information Security and Risk Operating Committee.• Managed all front office activities and all upstream engagement and interface with the Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Security Officer, the Chief Risk Officer, all the Chief Information Officer’s for the firm, and the Chief Administrative Officer. • Served as the GIS representative on the firm’s Chief Information Officer Council (CIOC), the O&T Risk Management Committee (OTRMC), the Technology Oversight Committee (TOC), the Privacy Cross Functional Work Group, and the O&T Compliance Rules and Implementation Committee. • Responsible for driving the entire information security strategy for an infrastructure with over 1.2MM endpoints, 147,000 servers, 23 Citiplex Data centers, and an environment that stores more data than Google and writes more code than Microsoft. • Served as the primary coordination point with the firm’s Architecture, Engineering, and Infrastructure Teams. • Managed the automated aggregation and ingestion of all GIS Metrics to analyze and produce the department’s Monthly Business Report (MBR) with over 130 KPI’s reporting across all GIS verticals. • Led all Regulatory engagements for more than 100 Regulators in 64 countries as well as all Internal Audit Engagements. • Oversaw the department’s Talent Management, Communications, War Gaming, and Process Improvement responsibilities. • Responsible for briefing the Board of Directors for all Citi Platinum Clients on Cyber Security with the most recent being AXA Equitable Financial Services, one of the largest companies in the world with over 103 MM clients in 59 countries. • Oversaw firm’s designation as the only Financial Services Institution to be 27001 certified in Information Security.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Managing Director - Global Cyber Security Team - Central Technology - Chief Administrative Office
    Jpmorgan Chase Feb 2014 - Dec 2014
    New York, Ny, Us
    Cyber Security Operations (Cyber Intelligence, Hunting, Vulnerability Management, Cyber Investigations, and Incident Response) - Global Cyber Security Team• Responsible for authoring and presenting the enterprise-wide information security strategic plan for the creation of a modern Cyber Security model at JPMorgan Chase designed specifically for a large, sophisticated multi-channel financial institution that places the necessary emphasis on Information Security and puts the firm in the best position to respond to and mitigate today’s increasing, evolving, and sophisticated IS Threats. • Implemented a world class Cyber Intelligence Fusion Operation that is responsible for detecting and identifying some of the largest and most prolific breaches in U.S. history, including the Target Breach and the JPMorgan Chase Breach. • Built a world-class team of 100 Cyber Security Professionals responsible for the firm’s Cyber Intelligence Operations, Cyber Analytics, Threat and Vulnerability Management Operations, Hunting Services, Incident Response Services, Cyber Investigations, and Hygiene functions. • Managed all Breach Investigations, Critical System Compromises, Cyber Security Incidents, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) incidents for the firm.• Authored the Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the firm’s first Hunting capabilities. • Authored the Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the firm’s entire Cyber Security Operations function.• Authored and executed the IS Strategy to construct three innovative state-of-the-art Security Operation Centers that will serve as the central nervous system for all Cyber Security Operations.• Routinely briefed the firm’s Operating and Executive Committee’s on weekly Cyber Security Flash Reports, Cyber Security Program Scorecards, Cyber Security Threats, Information Security Incidents, Cyber Crime Investigations, Cyber Intelligence Initiatives, and Operational Risk Strategies.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Managing Director - Global Security And Investigations Department - Chief Administrative Office
    Jpmorgan Chase May 2012 - Feb 2014
    New York, Ny, Us
    Chief Information Security Officer• Led a team of 500 Cyber Security, Physical Security, Investigations, Operations, and Compliance professionals who conducted over 52,000 investigations, filed 36,000 Suspicious Activity Reports, and recorded $350 MM in fraud prevention in only one year • Provided consultancy to LOB IRM’s based on comprehensive threat assessments and the identification, selection, and adaptation of technology countermeasures and cost-benefit analysis, as well as providing thought leadership for protecting systems and information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, and disclosure that includes avoiding system interruptions that could impact critical business functions. • Key member of the firm’s Information and Technology Risk Leadership (ITRL) Committee and Cyber Security Governance Committee that provides governance and oversight for the firm’s Enterprise IT Risk and Security Framework, including the protection of customer and employee PII, and compliance with internal IT policies and regulatory requirements. • Responsible for building and overseeing the firm’s active anti-fraud and cyber security defensive posture against attacks from the cyber underground economy. • Created the firm’s enterprise wide quality assurance program for regulatory reporting on cyber incidents.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Executive Director - Global Security And Investigations Department - Chief Administrative Office
    Jpmorgan Chase Mar 2010 - May 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    Global Head of the Investigative Services Division• Created the firm’s first Investigative Services Division (ISD) by driving massive organizational change to centralize and consolidate many disparate investigative teams across the enterprise.• Led a massive process improvement re-engineering effort across the entire Investigative Services Division that led to an increase in productivity of over 1,000% and a decrease of cost per unit of 23%. • Formed the firm’s first Electronic Crimes team that focused on cross channel fraud and risk associated with all of the firm’s remote access mediums. • Responsible for all internal investigations for the firm, including the firm’s entire Insider Threat Program. • Oversaw the firm’s participation in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council Board of Advisors with both of the firm’s representatives reporting directly to me.• Created a world-class Card Investigations team to investigate the most high profile payment card breaches and incidents, including the capability to conduct live network and host based forensics to gather intelligence and support investigative conclusions.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Senior Vice President - Global Security And Investigations Department - Chief Administrative Office
    Jpmorgan Chase Feb 2008 - Mar 2010
    New York, Ny, Us
    Deputy Director - Global Cyber Security Team• Responsible for creating and proposing the strategy to create the firm’s first Cyber Security Team.• Created the first Cyber Security Operations model that facilitated the end-to-end process of monitoring, alerting, triaging, mitigating, investigating, and recovering from network security incidents.• Served as the forensics coordinator for all Privacy Issues globally.• Served as an internal Cyber Security consultancy for senior executives• Created a Physical Security and Executive Protection Intelligence functions that collected data from cyber sources and correlated it with human intelligence to produce real actionable intelligence in this space.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Vice President - Audit Department - Chief Administrative Office
    Jpmorgan Chase Aug 2005 - Feb 2008
    New York, Ny, Us
    Investigations Manager - Global Cyber Security Team• Designed and implemented the first of its kind Cyber Threat Intelligence Program in a major financial institution placing J.P. Morgan Chase at the forefront of revolutionizing the way financial institutions combat cyber organized criminal groups, investigate sophisticated cyber fraud, and collect and analyze intelligence to feed risk mitigation systems and safeguard our technological resources and proprietary data. • Authored the strategy to implement a state-of-the-art global computer forensic infrastructure that has resulted in the expeditious disposition of privacy incidents, increased ability to investigate insider threat issues, and a sophisticated Big Data analytical support and program management function for all cyber security initiatives. • Proactively partnered with business, technology, and risk leaders in the LOB’s to deliver Cyber Security products and services and advise on IT risk management strategies. • U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance (not currently active).
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  • Harvard Kennedy School Of Government
    Guest Lecturer
    Harvard Kennedy School Of Government Jan 2011 - Jan 2011
    Cambridge, Ma, Us
    Guest Lecturer on Cyber Crime for the school's first ever Cyber Security Course
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  • United States Secret Service
    Special Agent - Newark Field Office
    United States Secret Service Jul 2000 - Aug 2005
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Group Leader - Electronic Crimes Task Force• Graduated #1 in my Secret Service Class, and was granted the honor of being a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Secret Service Academy, an extremely rare and very prestigious distinction. • Founding member of the Newark Field Office Electronic Crimes Task Force.• Authored and composed the first Title III Wire interception on an Internet-facing computer network in United States history resulting in the dismantling of a global cyber organized crime group responsible for $100 MM in financial fraud in seven states and six countries. • Authored the entire Command Center Operations Playbook for simultaneous worldwide takedown of the largest Organized Crime Group in the world. • Extensive experience in supervising investigations into computer intrusions, phishing scams, computer frauds, stolen proprietary information, and credit card fraud utilizing digital business currencies.• Member of the Secret Service Computer Systems Protection Initiative (CSPI) responsible for assessing vulnerabilities in computer networks and implementing mitigation strategies to secure critical information systems and establish incident response tactics with CSIRT’s. • Secret Service Instructor and Expert in Weapons and Tactics• U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance (not currently active).
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  • Dover Police Department
    Police Officer
    Dover Police Department Feb 1992 - Jul 2000
    Detective Sergeant - Investigative Division• Obtained specialized supervisory experience in areas that would directly affect the efficiency of a large corporate community, including crime prevention and investigation, drug detection and prevention, domestic violence and education, and responding to workplace violence incidents. • Supervised the Internal Affairs Division of the Department • Youngest police officer ever to be promoted to Detective Sergeant in the history of the Dover Police Department. • One of the most decorated officers in the history of the Dover Police Department after only being there a little over eight years.

George Rettas Skills

Information Security Risk Assessment Computer Security Risk Management Computer Forensics Private Investigations Investigation Cyber Security Cyber Security Operations Cyber Security Strategy Program Management Security Management Project Management Cyber Security Policy Disaster Recovery Physical Security Incident Response Crisis Management Cyber Investigations Cissp Network Security Enforcement Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunting Teams Compliance Entrepreneurship Business Continuity Planning Executive Protection Insider Threat Application Security Identity And Access Management Threat And Vulnerability Management Data Loss Prevention Mobile Security Resiliency Database Security Privacy Issues Third Party Information Security Assessments Secure Software Development Lifecycle Infrastructure Defense Advance Work Special Weapons And Tactics Firearms Social Media Entertainment Writer Television Feature Films Firearms Instruction Producer

George Rettas Education Details

  • Florida State University
    Florida State University
    Criminal Justice
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Administrative Science
  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Computer Science
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Computer Science
  • The Wharton School
    The Wharton School
    Corporate Security

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