Josh Brown is currently the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Compliance at Ally Financial with an oversight role for cyber-threat related compliance activities as well as effective challenge and oversight of Ally’s cybersecurity threat posture. He joined Ally with his background in working broadly across the financial services sector and other industries in areas of application security, threat intelligence, business continuity, government regulation, risk assessments and vulnerability management processes.

Josh is based in Charlotte, NC with his wife, three children, chickens, dogs, cats, frogs, fish and lizards. He greatly enjoys opportunities to mentor cybersecurity professionals in their career objectives (which he often does through Charlotte’s Phish Club). In his spare time he enjoys unsuccessful attempts at growing fields of beans and corn. He holds a master’s degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University and holds certifications from ISC2 and ISACA.