Create Your Cyber-Resilient Organization with the GetSmart Team
Our leadership team draws on cyber security, privacy compliance and change management.
Principals
“GetSmart are the guys to go to for anti-ransomware and security incident prevention in a rapidly-changing environment. They provide in-person advice and training that makes the difference.” Jennifer Schwab, CEO, Entity Academy
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Ted Alben
People & Security Technology
After years of deploying as much cyber tech as clients could afford (or stomach) I couldn’t give them the assurances that it “won’t happen again” and you’re “good to go.” We made a shift and created an approach focusing on the 95% root cause – lack of Cyber Defense Culture.
Most business leaders are not meeting this demanding, new challenge. Furthermore, the CISO role is poorly defined and communicated. And cyber threats are just warming up…
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My experience has taught me Cyber security is a balancing act between people and technology.
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Until now, the tool to create a CyberDefense culture did not exist. We built the adaptive strategy platform for organizations to achieve resiliency and strength.
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I'm a global Cybersecurity Specialist for logical and physical security. Career highlights include the 2008 Olympic Games, securing five of the top ten air and sea ports in the US, additional initiatives for anti-crime, anti-terrorism and emergency operations center design.
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In the private sector I support top movie studios, leading manufacturers and higher education. I also have decades of government service for US DHS, critical infrastructure, and security in EMEA, Asia-Pac, EU/UK, plus hundreds of businesses, universities, hospitals, and enterprise clientele domestically.
Rob Yates
Process Management Expert
My passion is to lead continuous improvement approaches and drive innovative transformations enabling teams to achieve outcomes that deliver exceptional gains. Gone are the days when cybersecurity, privacy and data governance could be "just" a parallel workstream. Cyber considerations are now embedded in everything we do as adversaries have developed predatorial supply chains that exploit human weaknesses.
I co-founded GetSmart after working on ransomware projects where the threats rapidly morphed and static plans and traditional organizational effectiveness programs were not agile enough. Like many transformational projects we found that personal behaviors are paramount in reducing cyber risks. These factors led us to develop a new approach which is found in the GetSmart Adaptive Strategy Platform.
I bring my experience designing and deploying enterprise software across business processes in all industries. My roles have included supporting Private Equity portfolios where Boards and executives led transformative initiatives with outsized EBITA growth outcomes despite active and aggressive cyber threats.
I have learned best practices from leaders like Accenture, SAP & Hewlett-Packard. This has been complimented with half-a-dozen high-growth innovative Silicon Valley start-ups, which now combines the cumulative experience necessary to drive people-powered cyber defense.
GetSmart's Cyber Defense Strategies Place the Human Element at the Core.
Consulting
Consulting sessions identify your cross-organization teams to build a cyber security culture and define compliance needs
Planning
Our workshops will build a cyber defense culture which enables teams to collaborate and coordinate cyber defense efforts
PLATFORM
The adaptive strategy platform is a cloud-based tool providing a cross-organization roadmap and action plan for defense methods and strategies
Results
Track results knowing that your teams
are informed and empowered, and your organization is in compliance with current laws
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"A CyberDefense Culture will really help organizations beat the hackers at their own game." Rentia Muell, Founder, Scientrix