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Maurice Uenuma
The State of Security
:**Maurice Uenuma is VP & GM, Americas and security strategist at Blancco, collaborating with an excellent team to deliver the world's leading data erasure, IT asset disposition, and mobile lifecycle solutions to address privacy, security, and sustainability needs. Prior to Blancco, Maurice was Vice President, Federal & Enterprise with Tripwire, supporting state governments and large enterprises in the United States. Prior to joining Tripwire, he was Vice President at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and served as Workforce Management co-chair of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group at NIST. Earlier, Maurice held leadership roles at Perot Systems and Dell, and served for nine years as an infantry and special operations officer in the United States Marine Corps. Maurice holds a Master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, and is a GIAC-certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP).

Cybersecurity Is Everyone’s Job

| | Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Featured Articles
As we all know by now, the human factor is crucial to enterprise security. Cyber attacks routinely exploit vulnerable human behaviors to gain entry, since organizations must trust their own people—or at least some of them—with access to critical systems. Humans make decisions on risk tradeoffs, funding for security programs, ... Read More
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Jumpstarting Your Cyberdefense Machine with CIS Controls V7

| | CIS, Cybersecurity, Security Controls
Amidst the volatility, uncertainty and noise of the cybersecurity field, few best practice frameworks have emerged as consistently reliable and useful as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Security Controls. Recently updated as version 7.0, the CIS Controls represent the most important security controls that an organization must implement to ... Read More
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