Summary
Mark Cidade is a Senior Cyber Security Architect with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering security architecture and engineering programs across complex, regulated enterprises. He has a track record of leading large cross-functional teams and driving measurable impact—most notably orchestrating the fastest Palo Alto Cortex endpoint deployment in North America, securing 95,000 endpoints in under eight months. Skilled in practical governance and architecture frameworks (TOGAF, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS), he builds roadmaps that reduce risk while enabling business growth and vendor consolidation. He has led security and enterprise architecture functions, developed executive dashboards and KPI frameworks, and represented cybersecurity at technology and security councils. A committed coach and D&I champion, he develops inclusive teams that raise security maturity and operational resilience. Based in Toronto, he combines infrastructure delivery roots with strategic security leadership, preferring pragmatic, measurable solutions over theory.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer