Gartner Expert

Steve Santos

Sr Director Analyst

Passionate Sr Director Research analyst that actively researches Security Operation topics such as:

Incident response technologies and processes

Modernizing SOCs

Evolving SIEM technologies and architectures

Evolution of Vulnerability management to Exposure management including adopting new technologies and techniques and how to effectively implement them for various organizations.

Security automation leveraging current and new automation techniques that are enabled by AI.

Network Security topics such as:

Network Segmentation techniques and architecture that vary from traditional methods to agent based options

Network Access Control from scoping to effective deployment. Contrast against alternative architectures and technologies such as UTZNA.

Zero trust architecture and effective implementation based well defined scopes.

Secure Services edge design and implementations.

Previous experience

I did consulting in the NYC area that was heavily involved in network engineering and network security engineering for midsize and fortune 500 organizations. This included global network security designs and implementations.

Afterwards I implemented security controls and best practices across various domains from Identity, endpoint security, networking and data security for several years in charlotte.

Afterwards I ran network security engineering for 5 years at Ally bank through a large organization changes and data center consolidation projects. Spearheaded network security implementations for Ally's initial implementation in cloud services.

I ran application security and vulnerability management practice at Ally and reduced overall exposure risk considerably by refining processes and technology used.

Professional background

Ally Bank, Director of Security Engineering, 5 years

Ally Bank, Director of Vulnerability management, 4 years

Areas of coverage
  • Security Operations for Technical Professionals

  • Security Technology and Infrastructure for Technical Professionals

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering

B.A. Computer Science Engineering

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Developing and Implementing a Exposure management and CTEM

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Developing and Implementing a Modern SOC

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Creating and Implementing Security Incident response plans

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How to implement a vulnerability and attack surface management program

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How to implement zero trust architecture