Scott Shafer – Technical Evangelist for Varonis supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives by helping Varonis’ customers and partners get the most out of the company’s products. In his 20+ year career Scott has served as an IT engineer, Operations Manager, and various leadership roles within Governance Risk and Compliance for FinTech software companies serving the financial services, treasury management and payments market space.
Scott is an Information security professional with recent focus on security risk and compliance management including identification of risk impact with cost aware mitigation strategies related to regulatory and cybersecurity requirements. He holds a CISSP certification and leverages his background to fuel his passion for enabling organizations to pragmatically manage risk around their most valuable asset, company data.
Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science and Network Security from DePaul University in Chicago.