Stephen Brannon
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Brannon is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with 13+ years leading and transforming security teams across financial services, government, and large enterprise. He has rebuilt SOCs, stood up cyber intelligence programs, and driven engineering and operations for cloud, data, and endpoint protection at scale. As a senior leader at Fannie Mae and now CISO at ISC, he specializes in embedding security into emerging domains like Generative AI/ML, API and data security while maintaining strong incident detection, response, and forensics capabilities. His background includes foundational roles at the DOJ and FBI, giving him rare operational experience that bridges prosecution-grade forensics and enterprise threat intelligence. Known for creating high-performing teams and applying quantitative risk analysis, he pairs technical depth with stakeholder-savvy leadership. Based in Virginia, he combines public-sector investigative rigor with private-sector engineering discipline to turn complex security requirements into practical, measurable programs.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Political Science, B.A. Political Science at Georgetown UniversityM.S. in MIT Management of Information Technology, M.S. in MIT Management of Information Technology at University of Virginia
Github Skills (2)
text-files9
python5
Github contributions (1)
stephenbrannon/IOCextractor
Jul 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 2 months
pythoniociocscompromisetext-files
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