About: Brian Scott

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Bio: Brian Scott provides expert CIO and CISO services based on a technology career spanning 35 years with the last 20 at the C-level.  He specializes in Cybersecurity, Software and Data Engineering, Cloud Services, Data Architecture, System Integration, and Association IT Strategy.  He has 22 years of experience within the nonprofit and association markets, is a patent holder in event technology, and a past board director for the International Association of Exhibitions and Events as well as the Center for Exhibitions Industry Research.

Posts by Brian Scott:

A Few Steps to Improve Your Cybersecurity in 2023

Posted on: 05 Jul 2023

It’s amazing, if not terrifying, how fast the cybersecurity industry has exploded over the last 20 years. It’s literally gone from “maybe we should add passwords to our website” to “a significant business risk” in what seems like the blink of an eye. Entire career paths have been created within the industry so that most organizations now have multiple, specialized vendors supporting their enterprise cybersecurity program.

Cybersecurity 101

Posted on: 29 Mar 2023

On February 12, 2013, President Obama signed an executive order named “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”. From this directive, the National Institute of Standards and Technology was tasked with the development of what has become the granddaddy of cybersecurity frameworks.