In collaboration with SecurityStudio, ISACA San Diego is excited to announce a special webinar series, focused on providing cybersecurity professionals with leadership insights, experience, and perspectives. Security failures in organizations rarely come from one big mistake. More often, they grow from small cracks: siloed teams, limited staff forced to wear too many hats, strategies that never connect to business goals, and compliance programs that exist only in binders.

In this session, Matt Taylor will share how fractional technology and security leadership closes those gaps by aligning strategy, governance, and technical execution. Drawing on his experience in more than 250 incident response engagements, from ransomware containment to post-incident rebuilds, Matt will show how Zero Trust security principles and compliance frameworks can be applied together to create security programs that are resilient, measurable, and sustainable.

Attendees will learn:
- Understand how tool sprawl, fractured access controls, and “compliance theater” weaken security
- Learn why accountable leadership is the missing link between business outcomes, compliance, and Zero Trust
- Gain insights from real-world scenarios that show what is possible when leadership, priorities, and resources align (without overpromising)
- Take away a framework you can use immediately to link executive goals, audit readiness, and secure access

This presentation is open to the public, available at no cost, and designed for curious minds of all ages and level(s) of technological experience. Participants will receive 1 CPE for attending/participating in the presentation.

DETAILS:
Date: Thursday, September 25
Time: 12-1:15pm PST / 1-2:15pm MST / 2-3:15pm CST / 3-4:15pm EST.
Location: Online via Zoom
CPE: 1

SPEAKER:

• Matt Taylor - Fractional Technology and Security Executive; Director of Technology, Cyber Guards | Cybolt

  Matt Taylor is a fractional technology and security executive focused on transforming how leadership works in practice. He replaces reactive, tool-first approaches with accountable, outcome-driven strategies. As Director of Technology at Cyber Guards and Cybolt, he leads engineering strategy, provides strategic guidance for security operations, shapes platform operations and architecture, and oversees internal IT functions. He also directs the delivery of enterprise security services spanning SOC operations, secure access architectures, and technology enablement for compliance initiatives.

  Matt works closely with clients, service providers, and partner teams to ensure that technology vision, security strategy, and operational execution are aligned and delivering measurable value. His experience spans from SMB to Enterprise operations, cloud-first architectures to complex OT environments. This depth and range of experience enables him to guide IT service providers in designing and delivering scalable, resilient solutions.

  He has extensive hands-on incident response experience, leading teams through ransomware containment, forensic investigations, recovery efforts, and post-incident hardening. In addition to his leadership at Cyber Guards and Cybolt, Matt is the founder of ZenithX1, which powers his executive advisory brands for CIO, CISO, and CTO engagements. He is committed to raising the bar for technology and cybersecurity leadership, helping to repair an industry often burdened by complexity, misalignment, and tool-driven thinking, so teams can work with clarity, trust, and resilience.

  His work spans from SMB to Enterprise environments, cloud-first operations to complex OT settings, and how this depth and range of experience benefits IT service providers and their clients.

  Visit Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyberninja365