Steve Driz
President at The Driz Group
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Driz is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and seasoned IT executive with over 25 years of experience building security programs, vCISO services, and managed protection for mid-market organizations. As founder and President of The Driz Group, he leads incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, and compliance efforts (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) while prioritizing employee education and enforceable policies. His background spans CISO and director roles across nonprofits and enterprise firms, delivering SSAE/SOC2 and PCI readiness and aligning security with business goals and ROI. A longtime Linux user and early Asterisk PBX adopter, he combines deep hands-on networking and collaboration expertise (Cisco routing/switching) with executive-level risk management. He also founded a digital reputation agency, demonstrating a rare blend of technical depth and commercial product/marketing leadership. Based in Toronto, he leverages MIT, Stanford, and University of Toronto executive studies to bridge strategy, compliance, and pragmatic security operations.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Cybersecurity and Its Ten Domains, Certificate Cybersecurity and Its Ten Domains at University System of GeorgiaMBA - Leadership Program, MBA - Leadership Program at University of TorontoAdvanced Corporate Risk Management, Advanced Corporate Risk Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBComp. Business Administration Systems Automation & Design, BComp. Business Administration Systems Automation & Design at Ukrains'kij Deržavnij Mors'kij Tehnicnij Uniwersitet im. 'Admirala Makarova'Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford University
English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian
Github Skills (200)
encrypt10
epub10
reverse-proxy10
python10
switch10
proxy10
rdp10
edk210
ubuntu10
automation10
menu10
docker-container10
boot10
webserver10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
linuxserver/docker-scrutiny
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
drizuid/drizuid.github.io
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 56 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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