Nelson Carter

Background

About Nelson Carter

Director of Information Technology and Security (ITS Director) of 100mn+ ENR's Top 500 Design Firms. Oversees Geocon's 9 regional offices IT Infrastructure and cybersecurity operations.* IT INFRASTRUCTURE - Oversees, evaluates and identify the company's adherence to federal technology standards.* INCIDENT RESPONSE - Built Incident Response process that enables timely, effective response to cyberattacks. Perform executive level decisions when identifying an attack, understanding its severity and prioritizing it, investigating and mitigating the attack, restoring operations, and taking action to ensure it won’t recur.*VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT - Perform quarterly assessments of networks, security, and systems. Identifies where those systems/networks deviate from acceptable configurations or local policies. Enforce compliances requirements from NIST and HIPAA * IT OPERATIONS - Responsible for the anaylsis, design, planning, implementation and maintenance of all facet of IT. Including all security detection and alerting of all systems.*Security Awareness - Created a security awareness capabilities including monthly phishing/vishing/smishing simulations campaigns, quarterly awareness training, and metrics to mearusre success.