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Sean Mason

Director, Threat Management & Incident Response

Cisco Security Advisory Services

Sean Mason is the Director of Threat Management for Cisco’s Security Advisory Services.

After serving his commitment to the US Air Force, Sean spent his career with Fortune 500 companies (Cisco, GE, Monsanto & Harris). Sean served as the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) representative for Harris from 2009-2011, helping to design and implement their SOC and IRT; also notable is that Sean was the Director of Incident Response for GE for a number of years, which included designing and leading the build outs of their SOC and Cyber Crime IR Teams.

Sean also holds a number of industry certifications and dedicates time to ISC2, helping to design and develop certifications and exams such as the CISSP, CSSLP, and ISSMP.

Sean resides in Miami, FL.

Articles

October 3, 2019

SECURITY

Threat Hunting: How to Gain the Most Value

4 min read

As security practitioners who continuously look for adversarial malice, one of the questions we are asked frequently is: What’s around the corner?

April 23, 2019

SECURITY

Increase Your Security Resiliency with Enhanced Incident Response Retainer Services

2 min read

Introducing our Enhanced IR Retainer, which includes: 1) detection assessment and 2) adversary simulation purple team. Our detection assessment examines an organization’s resiliency to attacks, while simultaneously assessing the organization’s ability to detect the attacks.

October 30, 2018

SECURITY

Cisco Recognized as a Leader in Incident Response

3 min read

It is never ideal to “go it alone” during a cybersecurity breach. Talk about a high-pressure situation.  Getting access to experts is critical: with a strong support team, you’ll have...

April 30, 2018

SECURITY

Top 5 Recommendations from Cisco Incident Response Engagements

5 min read

In the course of an emergency response, our Incident Response (IR) team constantly makes tactical and strategic recommendations according to customer and environment needs. Here are the 5 top recommendations.

September 22, 2017

SECURITY

Incident Response Fundamentals – Communication

5 min read

While there are a number of ways to err during the course of responding to an incident, it never seems to fail that the number one misstep I...

Is it time to hire cybersecurity guardians for the network? 

1 min read

Another day, another hack. It seems like every time we turn on the news, we are hearing about another company that has been breached. How to remove the burden of detection, investigation and remediation from the in-house security teams? What about recovering a network and rebuilding trust after a breach – when is the time to turn to an expert? Join #CiscoChat on Wed, June 7th at 11AM PST to talk about alleviating the stress of dealing with the advanced threat landscape.

October 19, 2016

SECURITY

Combatting Cybercrime with an Incident Response Plan

2 min read

Based on the cybersecurity news proliferating in the mainstream media today – from ransomware incidents to data breaches of massive proportions – it has become clear that organizations need to...

August 9, 2016

SECURITY

The Haves & Have Nots: Threat Management Maturity

2 min read

IT departments regularly ask us questions about their security posture, their security concerns, and specifically, the makeup of their Threat Management (TM) organizations. Generally speaking, Threat Management includes anything in the Intel-Detection-Response arena, generally encompassing Security Operations Centers, Intelligence Organizations, and Incident Response Teams. When it comes to the makeup of their TM organizations, companies […]

June 6, 2016

SECURITY

Incident Response Goes to Hollywood

2 min read

Having personally spent a lot of time at Fortune 500’s, I know that individuals tend to develop blinders when dedicated to an organization, and begin to accept that things are done a certain way, and there is an order about things. It may come as a surprise then, when others don’t do things the way […]