Jay DePaul

Jay DePaul leads cyber security and technology risk globally for Dun & Bradstreet. He is responsible for designing and governing enterprise‑wide technology risk in support of business growth, innovation, and trust, while ensuring strong cyber defense and regulatory readiness. DePaul brings a risk‑first perspective to evolving cyber threats, regulatory expectations, and technology shifts, with an emphasis on protecting client data and the company’s most critical digital assets across complex, distributed environments. He oversees an optimized, risk‑based security strategy that aligns controls to business importance, balancing resilience, compliance, and cost while enabling the company to scale securely. DePaul has been accountable for ensuring Dun & Bradstreet’s cloud transformation was executed safely and at scale, establishing the security, risk, and governance foundations that enabled the business to adopt cloud‑ and AI‑driven systems with confidence. His work focuses on defining guardrails, controls, and operating models that enable teams to embed AI in products and safely scale its use across engineering and business workflows. DePaul designs operating models where security, resilience, and compliance are embedded into daily execution and long‑term strategy rather than applied after the fact. He actively engages the Dun & Bradstreet community to promote transparency, collaboration, and shared accountability, enabling teams to surface risk early and continuously improve security practices.