Scott Shafer – Director of Sales Engineering and Technical Evangelist for Varonis, supports a wide range of security and technology initiatives by strategically helping organizations understand data security landscape and paths to control the chaos.

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 who focuses relentlessly on defending data as the primary tenant to building as well as running GRC and security programs.  Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science and Network Security from DePaul University in Chicago as well as a CISSP.