About Me

Security Enabling Business

Security exists to lower the business risk associated with taking opportunities to create value. Security delivery must be designed, operated and measured based upon maximizing this. This is the short answer I have for creating successful security programs. The longer answer is what I do best - making it a reality.

Joe Esensten

What I Deliver

Leadership

I lead by example. I see the forest for the trees. I develop people and teams. I do the right thing.

Business Alignment

The strategies I create enable business opportunities by mapping security delivery directly to business and risk drivers.

Secure Design

Threat-focused, coherent, and collaborative: My risk-based products provide an adaptable, multiuse baseline for measuring drift (risk).

SABSA, TOGAF, C4, OAA.

Experience

Leadership

United States Army

I led tactical information management activities for sustained combat operations. My team of 20 technicians supported special and regular forces with systems, networks and cryptography to meet ever changing operational demands.

Oncor

Created and led an integrated security and network operations center monitoring both IT and field assets. Selected, trained, and managed a team of 15 providing 24x7 monitoring, theat prevention, and incident response.

Strategy & Architecture

Xcel Energy

I built an integrated security strategy which provided the foundation for a successful security program. Providing a common and consistent model, I shepherded 16 delivery streams to rethink and realign resulting in business goal attainment, lowered risk and increased departmental funding.

Oncor

Led security strategy and architecture for a transition to hybrid cloud to facilitate a services-based model to enable business flexibility and decrease time to market.

Dev & Ops

Oncor

I led transformational change as the business moved to cloud services and Agile delivery. I focused my efforts on developing my staff of over 100 to succeed in a CI/CD model. Additionally, I created and piloted an application and software supply chain security program based on threat which was adopted across all development streams.

Raytheon

I led a team performing security engineering for military intelligence software. This included process development for building security and compliance into Agile continuous integration development streams.

Credentials

Tech Skills

  • Cloud Security Governance
  • Identity Management
  • Application Security
  • Models & Patterns
  • Event Management
  • Frameworks & Controls
  • Threat Modeling
  • Open Source Intelligence

Education

  • MS, Information Management
  • BS, Business Administration (MIS)
  • Professional Certificate, Data Science

Where I Live

Denver, Colorado

Email

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