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Rick Yocum
Senior 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 and BS in Management Information Systems, Duquesne University
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
COVID-19 and Preparing for Changing Cybersecurity Risks
There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic is significantly impacting many people’s daily lives, with “social distancing” quickly being added to the social lexicon, schools closing, and events being canceled. Additionally, many businesses are rapidly moving to a remote and work from home model. While many organizations already have a large number of employees...
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The Three Step Security Strategy
Why Does Strategy Matter? The term ‘security strategy’ can be ambiguous and often means different things to different people. Because of this, many organizations do not have a formalized security strategy and those that do may not have an effective one. This is understandable. Managing the day-to-day issues associated with a security program (alerts, audits,...
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Top 10 MITRE ATT&CK™ Techniques
The MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) Framework (https://attack.mitre.org/) is “a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques” that is “open and available to any person or organization for use at no charge.” One of the most beautiful parts of the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework is that its information can be analyzed to...
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Recent Webinars
Getting a Grip on CMMC—Tips and Tricks for the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
Register Now 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 your father’s 800-171 For those of...
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...
