COVID-19 and Business Resilience

Ron Brown

Director - Cybersecurity Solutions,
GuidePoint Security

Ron leads security solutions for the information assurance consulting organization; which includes application security, cloud security, incident response and forensics, governance, risk and compliance, penetration testing and social engineering. Ron’s primary focus is working with clients to provide support in understanding GuidePoint’s information assurance services. Ron has over 25 years of experience in cyber. He has spent half of his career working in advisory and consulting, and the other half leading internal organizations to build and lead cyber-resilient organizations.

Ron has extensive experience in multiple cyber disciplines across commercial industry sectors and government. Prior to joining GuidePoint, Ron held executive leadership roles with Accenture, PWC, IBM and several technology services organizations. Ron served as the CISO for Freddie Mac prior to his consulting career. His accomplishments have included building and leading cybersecurity organizations, technology transformation, vendor management, CISO programs and business resiliency.

He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including, IANS, ISSA, ISACA and DRI on a wide array of information security and business resiliency topics. Ron earned a bachelor’s degree from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and his MBA from Averett University. He also holds CISM, CISSP and CBCP certifications.