Jeff Bryner
CISO at SANS Institute
Gig Harbor, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Bryner is a veteran CISO and security entrepreneur with 15+ years designing and leading enterprise security programs across Mozilla, Vacasa, healthcare and utilities. He builds high-performing teams and pragmatic security products—spanning incident response, cloud and application security, and bespoke serverless tooling—to harden organizations through periods of rapid growth and funding events. As an instructor and SANS advisory board contributor he blends practitioner rigor with mentorship, having taught GCIH and CISSP courses and shaped security curriculum. He now runs vCISO services and a bespoke security vendor, helping clients integrate AI, manage risk, and operationalize incident response. Notably, he led open-source security efforts at Mozilla (MozDef, Observatory and related tooling) and has a track record of turning security architecture into measurable business outcomes. Based in Gig Harbor, WA, he pairs strategic leadership with hands-on engineering and a coach-first approach to talent development.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Science, BS, Management Science at Virginia TechVirginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business
Github Skills (200)
python10
model-management10
defense10
security10
google-sheets10
file-parser10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
google-sheets-api10
django10
pandas10
heatmap10
elk10
firefox10
pebble10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jeffbryner/quill-reactive
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
quill wrapper for meteor to show edit changes in realtime
Contributions:77 commits, 10 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years
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jeffbryner/gcp-sample-slackbot-cloud-function
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
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