Matt Fagala has over 20 years of experience in IT Operations. The majority of his career has been spent working for financial institutions and small to medium sized businesses in the St. Louis region. Like many, his career started at an early age with an interest in computer games and tinkering with computer hardware. After starting his first technical support role in college, he quickly moved on to engineering roles and eventually into cyber security. In recent years his passion has been defending small to midsize organizations and their staff from attacks. Matt believes in both continuous awareness training and an ever evolving layered defense strategy to meet the needs of the quickly evolving attack surface of today's organizations.

Matt is the Director of Security Operations at NTP Cyber Security where he manages the Security Operations Center team. NTP utilizes their custom designed ARGISS platform to offer a range of managed security services to organizations nationwide.