2026 - Aligning Cyber Defense and Compliance: Leveraging the Cyber Defense Matrix

Overview: Welcome everybody. Uh my name is Steve Dyson. I'll introduce myself here in a minute. Um but the talk that we're going to have today is around the Cyber Defense Matrix and how it can help with uh compliance readiness. And as we were discussing a little bit before, kind of the pain point especially on more of the security team, the defensive side of you know, great, cool, we're compliant, but what does that actually mean for me? Uh who am I? Uh my name is Steve Dyson. I'm a cybersecurity director

Key Topics: at Echelon Risk and Cyber. I work in our risk advisory practice. Uh been in uh true cybersecurity now for a little over 11 years. Uh started out in the incident response side of the house as an IR consultant. Built out the security operations team for a mid-size regional healthcare system in the Philadelphia area. Uh prior to joining Echelon Risk and Cyber, I was with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 for a little over 4 years. Uh and prior to coming into cyber, I worked in law enforcement and uh the military. Um big kind of where I have a passion especially when we're talking