About Jay

Jay began his IT career at the age of 17, fortunate enough to work with talented people at Thacher Proffitt and Wood LLP in New York City. It was his first professional work experience, and he knew that Information Technology was going to be his career path. In 2006 he became an active participant of the INROADS organization and acquired an internship at MetLife Insurance. He would ultimately go on to work there full time upon completing his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Hofstra University.

In 2010, Jay learned of an opportunity to take part in the Global Services Associate Program (GSAP) of RSA, the security division of EMC. He relocated to Philadelphia, PA and it was here that he would get exposure to the world of cyber security. As a generalist solutions engineer, Jay was responsible for engineering RSA’s solutions such as Multifactor Authentication (MFA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Security Information Event Management (SIEM).

Although Jay enjoyed his new location, he wanted to get back to his roots in New York City, and in 2012 relocated back there. RSA had acquired NetWitness, a full packet capture tool, and started incorporating it into the company’s portfolio. Additionally, the company had also purchased ECAT, the Enterprise Compromise Assessment Tool. These two solutions allowed Jay to expand his knowledge of network based forensics as well as endpoint detection response and forensics into his repertoire. He would go on to strategically advise customers in the New York City area until an opportunity for warmer climate arose, and in 2016 he relocated to Long Beach, California.

Jay had been working with many different clients from a forensic perspective with RSA’s solutions and noticed how identities were a big part of incidents he was exposed to. This acknowledgement shifted his focus to privileged identity compromise and in 2017, Jay pursued an opportunity with CyberArk Software. He now had the ability to focus on privilege and helping clients manage it from an identity perspective as well as from an escalation perspective on endpoints and servers.

His journey however, would take a turn in 2020. After spending so many years with solutions to help security professionals from a defensive perspective, Jay was looking for a way to proactively test all the solutions he had previously helped engineer. It was then that he started working with Pentera Security. Pentera allowed him to help clients view their network from the attacker perspective, now measuring the strategies that he had helped build in multiple different industries.

He would go on to lead a team of engineers from 2022- 2023, building the team in North America and Latin America. In 2024 he took the newly appointed role of Field CISO, now evangelizing cyber security strategies across the industry as well as championing the necessity of security validation and its value to security practitioners everywhere.