Abby Ross

Abby Ross

Austin, Texas, United States
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I have a proven track record of managing teams and leading marketing programs to help…

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Greater Chicago Area

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    Bronx, NY

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Education

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    Cornell University

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    The eCornell University "Executive Women in Leadership" program provided courses on leadership, networking and communication skills. IBM sponsored my entry into the program. Only a handful of women were selected to participate.

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    Activities and Societies: ß Graduated with National Academic Honor Society: Alpha Lambda Delta; Dean’s List 1999 - 2003 ß Member of Golden Key International Academic Honor Society

    I studied in Santiago, Chile for a semester. During my stay, I appeared as a guest on a Chilean television station.

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  • CNBC Features Bay Dynamics

    Companies that fell victim to the WannaCry ransomware attack overlooked unpatched vulnerabilities in legacy and other systems. CNBC interviews Bay Dynamics about how to prevent ransomware attacks such as this one in the future.

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  • CBS Evening News Features Trustwave

    CBS Evening News correspondent Anthony Mason reports on the 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report and interviews Trustwave ethical hackers Charles Henderson and Garret Picchioni.

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  • 2015 Security Pressures Report from Trustwave

    The 2015 Security Pressures Report from Trustwave measures how much pressure in-house information security professionals are facing and the key drivers of that pressure. It also offers recommendations to help businesses make better decisions regarding their security programs, including partnering with a managed security services provider. Trustwave commissioned a third-party research firm to independently conduct the survey. Respondents included 1,016 full-time IT managers, directors, CISOs…

    The 2015 Security Pressures Report from Trustwave measures how much pressure in-house information security professionals are facing and the key drivers of that pressure. It also offers recommendations to help businesses make better decisions regarding their security programs, including partnering with a managed security services provider. Trustwave commissioned a third-party research firm to independently conduct the survey. Respondents included 1,016 full-time IT managers, directors, CISOs, CIOS and other decision-making IT and security professionals in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Unlike last year's report, in addition to revealing the global findings, the 2015 Security Pressures Report also breaks down findings from respondents in small-medium sized businesses (less than 1,000 employees) and enterprises (more than 1,000 employees).

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  • "Security on the Shelf" report

    During a casual conversation with one of my Trustwave experts, he told me a story about how he went into a business and saw a web application firewall being used as a doorstop. I had heard that kind of "shelfware" problem was common among businesses of all sizes but I wanted to quantify it. I came up with an idea for a survey asking IT pros about how they spend their security budgets including how much of the security technologies they purchased were not being used to their fullest (or at all).…

    During a casual conversation with one of my Trustwave experts, he told me a story about how he went into a business and saw a web application firewall being used as a doorstop. I had heard that kind of "shelfware" problem was common among businesses of all sizes but I wanted to quantify it. I came up with an idea for a survey asking IT pros about how they spend their security budgets including how much of the security technologies they purchased were not being used to their fullest (or at all). We commissioned Michael Osterman, Principal Analyst at Osterman Research Inc. to distribute the survey and publish our "Security on the Shelf" report.

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  • 2014 State of Risk Report from Trustwave

    The 2014 State of Risk Report from Trustwave shows that many businesses actually are taking on a huge amount of preventable security risk. Based on a survey of 476 respondents, the report identifies common points of exposure and offers suggestions for amending them. Mixing in eye-opening statistics with best practice advice and solution guidance, this easily digestible report is necessary reading for any IT professional who values security as a business imperative – not just a technology task.

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  • Trustwave #SecuritySmarts Video Series

    In conjunction with October being National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Trustwave kicked off a video series to demonstrate that many employees are still not making security a top priority and adhering to best security practices. Along with the team members mentioned above, I wrote, co-produced and edited the six video segments. #SecuritySmarts

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  • Trustwave opens new hands-on ethical hacking lab

    Trustwave opened a new hands-on ethical hacking lab at its Chicago headquarters designed to enhance the threat intelligence team's abilities to break into commonly-used devices (with permission, of course) to identify security vulnerabilities.See the video listed above (which I produced, shot and edited).

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  • Trustwave Global Security Report Online

    The Trustwave Global Security Report Online is a reinvention of one of the industry's most well-respected and anticipated threat intelligence and data breach reports. Launched in 2014 at the Black Hat conference, the site changes the way Trustwave delivers new security research to the industry through a dynamic portal updated regularly with the latest stats and findings.

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  • Congress Calls on Trustwave for Data Breach and Malware Expertise

    The House Committee on Energy and Commerce called on Trustwave to offer testimony related to data breaches and malware as part of a Congressional hearing titled, "Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches Be Prevented?" In prepared testimony, Trustwave's Phil J. Smith presented observations and recommendations based on the company's experience investigating thousands of data breaches over the past few years, augmented by its ongoing security research and the threat intelligence gleaned…

    The House Committee on Energy and Commerce called on Trustwave to offer testimony related to data breaches and malware as part of a Congressional hearing titled, "Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches Be Prevented?" In prepared testimony, Trustwave's Phil J. Smith presented observations and recommendations based on the company's experience investigating thousands of data breaches over the past few years, augmented by its ongoing security research and the threat intelligence gleaned from Trustwave's large, global client footprint.

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  • Trustwave Security Pressures Report

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  • A video tour of Bay Dynamics' new headquarters in Manhattan

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    Bay Dynamics opens a new headquarters in New York City. I produced and hosted a short, light-hearted video tour of the new space.

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  • Video: What is the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017?

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    In an effort to add more videos to our Bay Dynamics blog, I sat down with our VP of Strategy Steven Grossman and Senior Fellow with The Conference Board Governance Center Bob Zukis to discuss the proposed Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017. Zukis and Grossman chat about what the legislation would entail and why it's important.

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  • A Day in the Life of a Cyber Security Pro

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    After hearing my Bay Dynamics subject matter experts discuss the continuous challenges cyber security professionals face managing cyber risk, I set out to quantify the problem. We hired a third party research company to survey more than 400 cyber security pros across various industries nationwide about the daily pressures they face managing millions of vulnerabilities a month and countless threat alerts. The report - A Day in the Life of a Cyber Security Pro - captures our findings.

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