Ryan Whalen is a cybersecurity leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building identity, cloud, and incident response programs for high-profile organizations. Currently VP of Cybersecurity overseeing NBA-standard compliance across teams, venues, and corporate entities, he has led enterprise IAM rollouts with Okta/Azure AD, centralized SIEM/SOAR operations, and hardened AWS/Azure environments. Previously a founding security engineer and manager at Casper, he combined policy, privacy compliance, and vendor risk programs with practical engineering and incident playbooks. Known for translating complex security frameworks (NIST, PCI, SOX) into operational controls, he also brings deep networking and systems roots from roles at Box and Windstream. Based in New York, he pairs executive-facing tabletop experience with a practitioner’s knack for automating detection and response to reduce mean time to remediate.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Networking and Systems Administration, Applied Networking and Systems Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Binghamton University
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