At GuidePoint, we specialize in delivering organizations with unmatched expertise, customized solutions, and top-notch services to empower them in making informed cybersecurity decisions that effectively mitigate risks. GuidePoint’s Northeast region has been doing business since 2012 and has become a trusted advisor to over 600 companies across New England, New York Metro and Upstate NY. Our Northeast team consists of about 75 total people, of which over half are technical professionals.
What sets our technical team apart is their extensive knowledge and experience in offensive and defensive security, risk assessment, and compliance. Many of our consulting professionals have honed their skills in the Department of Defense (DOD), intelligence communities, and Fortune 500 companies. Their first-hand expertise equips them with the insights needed to tackle complex security challenges head-on. With GuidePoint by your side, you can rest assured that you have a reliable ally who understands your unique needs and is fully equipped to deliver customized, effective solutions to meet your cybersecurity requirements. Together, we can conquer your greatest cybersecurity challenges and achieve lasting success.
GuidePoint Northeast has a large technical team with many former practitioners including former Splunk architect at GE, former Security & Compliance Architect at Walt Disney, former Director InfoSec at Capital One, former Manager Security Engineering at BNY Mellon and more.
Our network security experts are here to help you protect your enterprise from the modern threats that organizations face today. From network security assessments, implementation, and staff augmentation to platform specific services, our Northeast team is highly skilled across a range of leading products. Get in touch with your GuidePoint rep to leverage our Network Security expertise.
It’s important that you conduct a review of your cybersecurity architecture in order to identify pervasive issues with your environment’s security. Our security architecture assessment allows us to hone in on areas for improvement in regards to your organization’s security infrastructure. By pulling data from your different configurations, diagrams designed and implemented by your cyber security architects, and additional controls, we provide a current assessment of your organization’s security posture as well as detailed recommendations predicated on security industry guidance. Schedule your review today.
A new strategy known as Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) has surfaced, offering significant consolidation of numerous formerly fragmented security functions. GuidePoint provides Exposure Management services tailored to assist organizations in adopting Continuous Threat & Exposure Management (CTEM) practices. By prioritizing exposures over mere findings, GuidePoint facilitates the alignment of security endeavors with business risk reduction, enhances remediation ownership, and delivers insightful risk reporting.
A key differentiator in our service delivery is our program management team. Our PMO’s operate with the customer in mind and outcomes aligned with achieving your objectives. One of their key charters is to orchestrate coordination and interdependencies across both your team and the GPS team, allowing your service engagement to better meet its goals and realize strategic goals. Each and every one of our Northeast PMs have at least 7+ years of Cyber Security or IT experience, allowing us to not only help keep your project on track, but truly understand your needs and goals. You will meet this team soon if you are working with our Northeast services organization.
Gain greater visibility into your environment, reduce MTT*, and improve your tooling ROI all at the same time. The GuidePoint Security Analytics team helps improve your overall security posture by bridging the gap between your technologies and security operations. Some of the systems we can help with and have certifications in include Cribl, Splunk (Core, ES, SOAR), CrowdStrike (LogScale, NG-SIEM), Palo Alto XSOAR and Tines.
We work strategically with our partners to build events that educate, inspire and entertain our customers & prospects. We would love to have you join us at an upcoming event. Get in touch with your GuidePoint rep for more details on local events, or explore our flagship events below.
GEORGE LANG
GOLF TOURNAMENT
PLAINFIELD
GOLF TOURNAMENT
CLAY SHOOTING
EVENT
UPSTATE CYBER
RESILIENCE FORUM
GPSEC brings together C-level executives, security engineers, consultants and industry-leading vendors into a 1-day, intimate and interactive format.
All of the sessions are designed to inform and educate attendees with practical information on solving complex cybersecurity challenges.
GPSEC Boston takes place annually in March and GPSEC New York takes place annually in April.
GPSEC Boston – March 2025 date coming soon. 2023 On Demand Content
GPSEC New York – April 2025 date coming soon
Let us answer or solve those burning questions that keep you up at night. We work across so many industries and technologies and have a holistic view of the top challenges you may be facing or can answer your questions about the newest technology that may shift your security posture in the years to come.
Q1: SEC Announcement And What is Means
Q2: Summer of CTEM
Contact our team to ask your burning questions.
Chris York, GuidePoint Security | chris.york@guidepointsecurity.com | LinkedIn
Chris York is the Northeast Regional Partner at GuidePoint Security with more than 15 years of experience in IT and information security. Chris began his IT career as an engineer, earning a reputation for excellence in customer relationship management that established him as a leader in IT and information security sales. Before joining GuidePoint, Chris worked at RSA, the security division of EMC, through the acquisition of NetWitness. Prior to RSA, he spent four years designing and selling IT security, risk and compliance solutions for NetWitness and CoreOne Solutions, focusing on commercial enterprise customers in the Northeast. Chris has a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in management information systems from Salem State College.
Charlie Shields, GuidePoint Security | charlie.shields@guidepointsecurity.com | LinkedIn
Charlie Shields is the Northeast CTO. Shields brings over 15 years of working experience in the Information Security field. He also has experience working with numerous security solutions in various support and consulting roles. Prior to joining GuidePoint Security, Shields was a Systems Engineer at NetWitness working with small to large organizations to increase efficiencies and identify advanced threats. He has proven success in translating business requirements into technical solutions as a result of a diverse background in information security. Charlie Shields holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Rhode Island.
Tamara Sullivan, GuidePoint Security | tamara.sullivan@guidepointsecurity.com | LinkedIn
Tamara is the Director of Operations for GuidePoint Northeast. She joined GuidePoint in 2016 in Sales Operations and now leads overall operations including Sales Operations and Marketing. Tamara leads a large and highly skilled team of sales operations specialists who liaise with customers and vendors to make the sales process smooth and efficient. Tamara holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire.
Carl Morris, GuidePoint Security | carl.morris@guidepointsecurity.com | LinkedIn
Carl is the Sales Director for our New England and Upstate NY team. He joined GuidePoint in 2019 after leading winning sales team at multiple leading security solutions including SecurityScorecard, Cylance, Bromium and more. Carl is customer obsessed and enjoys leading customers from the first call to deployment, seeing promises through to fruition. Carl will happily shout from the rooftops that happy customers are his biggest advocates and will do anything he can to help his team have happy customers. Carl holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
Pete Ballas, GuidePoint Security | pete.ballas@guidepointsecurity.com | LinkedIn
Pete is the Sales Director for our New York Metro team. He joined GuidePoint in 2018 after a long stint leading sales at Netwitness, which was acquired by RSA. Pete has a large network of security professionals across New York and leads a strong team of expert advisors who are helping their customers remain secure amidst always evolving security threats. Pete holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.
