Esmond Kane

Chief Information Security Officer | Board Advisor | Speaker | CISSP, CISA

Greater Boston

About

Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer(s) I offer leadership, vision and experience. I have experience at all levels of Information Systems and Business practices and I really do enjoy coming to work every day! Specialties: Buzzwords ahoy! Information Security, Hacking and Cracking, PCI, HIPAA, CoBiT, ITIL, CISSP, CISA, Virtualization and Datacenter 2.0, SDLC and SaaS, Generativity to Walled Gardens, Outsourcing and Insourcing. Purchasing, Provisioning and Deployment, Identity Management and Single Sign On, Compliance, Audits and Risk Management, Governance and Control, Budgeting, Strategic Planning, SLA's, Backup, Centralized Management, SAN/NAS/iSCSI, NAC, Patch Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, ILM and Performance Tiering. And I fight zombies. Whew!

Experience

  • Chief Information Security Officer at Advarra
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Cyber Advisor at Bain Capital Ventures
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Cyber Advisor at Black Kite
    Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

  • Cyber Advisor at Tenable
    Aug 2017 - Present · 9 yrs

  • Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President at Steward Health Care
    Aug 2019 - Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    - Set cyber security and regulatory compliance strategy, and define the roadmap for a multi-state and international organization. - Lead a 40-staff, $10M+ budget Digital Transformation from the prior program. - Streamlined project portfolio to reduce operational and budgetary expenses, to improve operations and resiliency, and to consolidate vendors. - Major contributor to the companies pandemic response efforts, focused on digital transformation and cloud adoption, addressing revenue and remote-workforce exposure.