Shane Stephens

Director of Solutions Architecture, is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of expertise. Prior to his role as Director of Solutions Architecture at StrongDM, Shane assisted numerous government and commercial customers on their Network Access Control journey, offering invaluable guidance and tailored solutions at ForeScout Technologies. He also led incident response and vulnerability management operations at the Defense Information Security Agency Command Center and made contributions to data analytics at the National Security Agency. His engineering work at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory focused on developing secure platforms for the modern battlefield. Shane is dedicated to safeguarding the digital future.

StrongDM has been featured in Forbes, The New Stack, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, TechCrunch, and Fortune.

Expertise

Security, NIST, Access, Privileged Access Management, Compliance

Education

UMUC

Degrees & Credentials

CISSP, CEH, CSA

Latest blog posts from Shane

Water Utilities Cybersecurity Guide: Challenges & Solution

StrongDM is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) on Cybersecurity for the Water and Wastewater Sector: A Practical Reference Design for Mitigating Cyber Risk in Water and Wastewater Systems. This effort provides a means to identify common scenarios among Water and Wastewaters Systems (WWS) sector participants, to develop reference cybersecurity architectures, and propose the utilization of existing

Vendor Access Management (VAM) Explained

Vendor Access Management (VAM) is the systematic control and oversight of vendor access to an organization's systems, applications, and data. It involves processes such as onboarding and offboarding vendors, utilizing solutions for Just-in-Time access, ensuring security, and streamlining workflows to minimize operational inefficiencies.

Ensure Secure Access and Mitigate Threats to FFIEC Controls

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) places significant emphasis on user security controls and the mitigation of potential risks posed by privileged users. To comply with FFIEC guidelines and safeguard critical systems, strong access management measures are crucial.

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