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Rick Yocum
Principal Security Consultant
Experience
Rick has been helping organizations elevate their security and compliance practices for more than 16 years. Although Rick has consulted for – and led – information security programs at organizations of all sizes, in nearly all industries, he has extensive experience in the fields of education, finance, government, manufacturing, logistics, and service delivery. Pragmatic and resourceful, Rick provides actionable security and compliance solutions through a combination of simplification, creative reuse of existing tools/processes, and the application/reinforcement of proven security and compliance patterns.
Education & Certifications
- BS in Accounting Information Systems, Duquesne University
- BS in Management Information Systems, Duquesne University
- Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDSPE), ISACA
Industry Contributions
Rick is an active participant in the information security community and has spoken at a variety of industry events including B-sides, ISSA, IANS, and the CSO Breakfast Club. A frequent contributor to the TrustedSec Blog, Rick has also helped to establish and evolve a number GRC and Program Development offerings at TrustedSec, including GDPR assessments, MITRE ATT&CK Path Assessments, and IoT Security Assessments.
Passion for Security
Rick is passionate about identifying and exploring creative ways to enhance security and compliance programs – from using theater to train Incident Response teams to utilizing ideograms to communicate the nature and status of the control environment. Additionally, Rick is working on programs to better leverage behavioral economics, game theory, and other psychology-adjacent fields to improve organizational security posture and help reduce industry-wide shortage of skilled security practitioners.
Recent Blog Posts
Want Better Alerting? Consider Your Business Processes
Logging, monitoring, and alerting programs are some of the most critical elements of any security and compliance program, but traditional approaches for implementing and upgrading these capabilities are often noisy, expensive, and laborious. Traditional Alerting Approaches are Failing During program assessments, we find that a lot of clients are generating so many alerts that they...
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Vendor Enablement: Rethinking Third-Party Risk
Third-party risk management is an essential element of information security. It is common to see news about a large company being breached, and after learning more, you find out the breach was the result of a vendor. When you depend on another organization for a critical business process and allow them access to your network,...
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Is Zoom’s Lack of End-To-End Encryption a Problem?
All of the work-from-home activity coupled with all of the media about Zoom’s lack of end-to-end (E2E) encryption has resulted in a few clients asking us if Zoom can still be trusted to host meetings. It’s not exactly as they portray For those of you catching up, Zoom’s privacy and security have been the target...
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Recent Webinars
MITRE ATT&CK™ Solutions Update and Evolution: Exploring Advanced Applications of ATT&CK
Register The MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CKTM) Framework (https://attack.mitre.org/) is advancing as the go-to model for understanding known cyber adversary behavior. How TrustedSec Helps Organizations With ATT&CK Today, TrustedSec uses the ATT&CK framework to help organizations prioritize...
Getting a Grip on CMMC—Tips and Tricks for the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
This webinar was recorded on April 22, 2020. If you are in possession of Federal Contract Information (FCI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), now is the time to better address security and the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Not...
Using MITRE ATT&CK(TM) for Coverage and Effectiveness Assessments
Recorded on February 13th, 2019, AT 1:00 PM EST What is the MITRE ATT&CK(TM) Framework? The MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CKTM) Framework (https://attack.mitre.org/) is “a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques” that is “open and available...
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