Positioning proactive ransomware prevention and mitigation strategies is crucial for businesses and organizations to protect themselves from the devastating consequences of ransomware attacks. Proactive approaches aim to prevent ransomware incidents from occurring in the first place or minimize their impact significantly, rather than relying solely on incident response (IR) and extended detection and response (XDR) solutions to deal with attacks after they have happened. Let's delve into the benefits and importance of proactive measures over reactive ones:1. Preventing Losses: Proactive prevention and mitigation measures can prevent the encryption of critical data and the subsequent ransom demands, saving organizations from financial losses, potential legal consequences, and damage to their reputation.2. Cost-Effectiveness: Investing in proactive ransomware prevention strategies can be more cost-effective in the long run compared to the significant costs associated with incident response and ransom payouts.3. Business Continuity: By preventing successful ransomware attacks, businesses can maintain their operations without downtime, ensuring continuity and minimal disruptions to productivity.4. Reduced Recovery Time: Despite having IR and XDR capabilities, recovering from a ransomware attack can still be time-consuming and may result in data loss. Proactive measures can reduce the need for recovery efforts and accelerate the restoration of normal operations.5. Avoiding Reputation Damage: Ransomware attacks can significantly damage an organization's reputation. Preventing such attacks altogether ensures that customers and stakeholders perceive the organization as reliable and secure.6. Compliance and Regulations: Many industries have strict data protection regulations. Implementing proactive measures helps ensure compliance and avoids potential penalties for data breaches.

Built SaaS partnership with Lumen for WinMagic. Developed partnership for integrations with Ping Identity.

Direct Business Technologies (DBT) - MSP, the leader in Passwordless MFA as a Service. * DBT is an ideal solution for Small-Medium businesses and smaller enterprise clients and Managed Service Providers, MSPs. Almost 1,000 users served today. This SaaS-based offering provides the Fastest onboarding experience for today's user adoption, FROM Domain, VPN to applications. #saas #mfa #authentication #nopasswords #IAM #MSP #MSSP #CSP#passwordless

Top US Sales Rep in 2020. One of the Top sales people in Passwordless Authentication sales in the United States market. My success was connected to my abilities, background and an amazing sales engineering team.

Identity and Access Assurance, Governance and Lifecycle for RSA Federal, including SecurID Access Suite offering.

Zones Federal Team -recently awarded a spot on NASA SEWPV contract and establishing a full Federal Practice. Zones is a National Provider of IT Solutions and Services with over 1,400 employees focused on our customer's success. We have partnerships with the leading technology providers and can bring our staff of solution architects and industry certified specialists to solve any business or agency requirement. Zones is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) under the guidelines of the National Minority Supplier Development Council Inc. Recently named as Partner of the Year for Solution Innovation and a US National Solution Excellence Partner of the Year by Cisco.

Identity/Access Management. API/SOA Security. Product and services.

Achievements:Acted as the principal business development lead for the Federal Government. Principally focused on certification and accreditation programs for the Department of Defense and Civilian Agencies.Built a qualified sales pipeline of $15M in direct sales opportunities for key security compliance efforts within the Department of Defense and government service financial institutions. Personally developed $1.2M in additional business with the Armed Forces Benefits Association and Mentor Technologies. Developed strategic channel relationships with security companies, including; Apptis, Nortel Government Solutions, TC Associates, Force3, Intelligent Decisions, and Kearney and Co.Created professional services opportunities for identity management engagements with Ameriprise, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Developed teaming relationships with SAIC, EDS, CSC, and Lockheed Martin for automated security compliance testing/reporting and remediation planning, compliance regulations (FISMA, DIACAP, DITSCAP, GLBA, FERC, SOX, ISO 17799, and HIPAA).Successfully identified new opportunities with in the Army for Single Sign On, PKI, VSAT, and Video Surveillance.Achieved business development goals for targeting accounts, establishing high-level contacts, and developing proposals within

Key Achievements:Managed business development for new product line, SOLx, a product that enables cross-border transaction in e-business integration environmentsIdentified and marketed software globalization best practices to B2B company executives.Successfully promoted subject matter expertise in the supply chain, enterprise software, and security technology within the public and private sector markets.Established new accounts with, OEMs and e-tailers, including; HP, Zoho, Riversoft, Office Depot and the Paperexchange.com.