Michael Guess manages all top-down business, financial and cyber vendor risk analysis including identifying relevant key risk indicators and metrics. He has served as a Director of Operations at a FinTech start-up company and has held various roles such as managing vendors and supply chains, vendor contract management, large scale implantation, and product launch projects and supporting medium and large-scale business development teams. Michael has an MBA from UC Irvine.
Sam Brown is a retired member of the United States Army. During his service, he was an Information Technology Specialist in support of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). He fulfilled the roles of an Information Systems Security Officer and Network Administrator. He is certified in CompTIA Security+, Network+, and Ethical Hacking (CEH).
Austin has over 5 years of experience in vendor legal, financial, compliance, and scope of work risk assessments. He has negotiated and evaluated contracts with partners such as Dell, Intel, Samsung, Google, and Apple. Austin has coordinated transitions of contracts between entities after company splits. He also served as the contract administrator for the Solid-State Drive business division for Toshiba Memory America. Austin is a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz.
Wendy Harris has over 16 years of experience in supply chain management, vendor procurement, new and existing vendor risk evaluations, and contract negotiations. She has vetted and evaluated vendor risk related to regulatory compliance, market and financial health, and client specific vendor assessment requirements. Wendy is a graduate of Maryland University.
VLC will function as Mission Control for the clients Cyber Security Risk Monitoring efforts. All reporting, alerts, and platform functionality will be designed and customized to the needs of the client’s vendors by VLC. A one-hour debriefing meeting will occur every Monday or every other Monday depending on market conditions. At the debriefing meeting, VLC will review immediate threats and potential threats in addition to providing remediation suggestions for all identified threats. This service level will allow client IT leadership and staff to maintain the necessary capacity for all other IT related responsibilities while also maintaining constant monitoring of the cyber security threats unknowingly created by the client’s vendors.
VLC will function as Mission Control for the clients Cyber Security Risk Monitoring efforts. All reporting, alerts, and platform functionality will be designed and customized to the needs of the client’s vendors by VLC. A one-hour debriefing meeting will occur every Monday or every other Monday depending on market conditions. At the debriefing meeting, VLC will review immediate threats and potential threats in addition to providing remediation suggestions for all identified threats. This service level will allow client IT leadership and staff to maintain the necessary capacity for all other IT related responsibilities while also maintaining constant monitoring of the cyber security threats unknowingly created by the client’s vendors.