Gary Hayslip

Why nominated: After building up an innovative security program as San Diego’s CISO, Gary Hayslip has initiated an ambitious and strategic three-year plan for the Webroot where he now serves as global CISO.

Profile: Hayslip’s more than 20-year career, including advising an impressive range of VIPs in the public and private sectors, has strong roots in the U.S. Navy, where in 2008 as a postgraduate naval school student, he led a team to converge and re-architect five networks into a more… Show more

Why nominated: After building up an innovative security program as San Diego’s CISO, Gary Hayslip has initiated an ambitious and strategic three-year plan for the Webroot where he now serves as global CISO.

Profile: Hayslip’s more than 20-year career, including advising an impressive range of VIPs in the public and private sectors, has strong roots in the U.S. Navy, where in 2008 as a postgraduate naval school student, he led a team to converge and re-architect five networks into a more efficiently managed one, saving the command more than $2 million in operating costs.

Later, as San Diego’s CISO, he reportedly advised more than 40 departments on how to detect and prevent hacking attacks and developed a security program that included the first-ever partnership with five cyber starters, enabling him to create a SOC to protect the municipality’s new smart city infrastructure two years ahead of schedule.

Further contributions to San Diego include serving as an advisor to several local incubators and assisting new cybersecurity and IoT start-ups within the region. He actively mentors fledgling CISOs and also devotes time to fellow veterans transitioning from active duty to a cybersecurity career.

After moving to Webroot in April 2017, Hayslip implemented a three-year strategic plan to incorporate multiple Webroot solutions, including real-time threat intelligence, artificial intelligence and orchestration solutions to build a cyber-as-a-service security platform for client organizations.

A noted evangelist for the information security community, Hayslip has also been an advisory board member of the National Technology Security Coalition, a non-profit trade association that advocates or CISOs, since January 2018. Hayslip also authored the “CISO Desk Reference Guide: A Practical Guide for CISOs,” volumes 1 and 2, which are written to help CISOs expand their expertise and scope of knowledge.
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San Diego is home to an impressive group of information technology innovators who bolster the business, academic, governmental, and non-profit communities within our city. The Top Tech Exec Awards celebrate the unsung heroes of information technology, as these brilliant leaders and their teams serve as the behind-the-scenes forces that keep companies functioning and businesses accelerating on a daily basis.
Since 2008, Cox Business has served as Title Sponsor for an annual IT award event in… Show more

San Diego is home to an impressive group of information technology innovators who bolster the business, academic, governmental, and non-profit communities within our city. The Top Tech Exec Awards celebrate the unsung heroes of information technology, as these brilliant leaders and their teams serve as the behind-the-scenes forces that keep companies functioning and businesses accelerating on a daily basis.
Since 2008, Cox Business has served as Title Sponsor for an annual IT award event in San Diego, dedicated to spotlighting and lauding these technology trailblazers. “We at Cox Business are proud to continue bringing attention to the IT leaders of San Diego and to the exceptional work they do every day,” declared Larry Coval, senior vice president of Cox Business. “Their leadership is an inspiration, and the contributions made by these unsung heroes cannot be overstated.”
The number of information technology professionals nominated by their peers for the Top Tech Exec Awards has grown significantly year after year. An astute panel of independent judges from the business and information technology worlds carefully selects the honorees and special award honorees.
The Top Tech Exec Awards stand as San Diego’s largest annual award program celebrating the city’s most outstanding information technology executives. Each year, the competition is fierce as there are so many exceptional nominees. Show less

Technology Improvement - A U.S. federal, state or local government information security or information technology employee (examples include CIO, CTO, program/project manager, etc.) who has significantly contributed to the development of a unique information security technology improvement, program or project, on either a government-wide or agency-specific basis, within the last 12 months.

San Diego is home to an impressive group of information technology innovators who bolster the business, academic, governmental, and non-profit communities within our city. The Top Tech Exec Awards celebrate the unsung heroes of information technology, as these brilliant leaders and their teams serve as the behind-the-scenes forces that keep companies functioning and businesses accelerating on a daily basis.
Since 2008, Cox Business has served as Title Sponsor for an annual IT award event in… Show more

San Diego is home to an impressive group of information technology innovators who bolster the business, academic, governmental, and non-profit communities within our city. The Top Tech Exec Awards celebrate the unsung heroes of information technology, as these brilliant leaders and their teams serve as the behind-the-scenes forces that keep companies functioning and businesses accelerating on a daily basis.
Since 2008, Cox Business has served as Title Sponsor for an annual IT award event in San Diego, dedicated to spotlighting and lauding these technology trailblazers. “We at Cox Business are proud to continue bringing attention to the IT leaders of San Diego and to the exceptional work they do every day,” declared Larry Coval, senior vice president of Cox Business. “Their leadership is an inspiration, and the contributions made by these unsung heroes cannot be overstated.”
The number of information technology professionals nominated by their peers for the Top Tech Exec Awards has grown significantly year after year. An astute panel of independent judges from the business and information technology worlds carefully selects the honorees and special award honorees.
The Top Tech Exec Awards stand as San Diego’s largest annual award program celebrating the city’s most outstanding information technology executives. Each year, the competition is fierce as there are so many exceptional nominees. Show less

Since 2011, SANS has been celebrating those "Difference Makers" whose innovation, skill and hard work have resulted in real increases in information security. There is no shortage of publicity around failures in security - constant headlines detailing breaches and vulnerabilities at companies and government agencies. However, what you never hear about are the many organizations who aren't in the news because their security staff have found ways to meet business and mission needs while… Show more

Since 2011, SANS has been celebrating those "Difference Makers" whose innovation, skill and hard work have resulted in real increases in information security. There is no shortage of publicity around failures in security - constant headlines detailing breaches and vulnerabilities at companies and government agencies. However, what you never hear about are the many organizations who aren't in the news because their security staff have found ways to meet business and mission needs while protecting customer and business data from attackers. There are thousands of security practitioners out there who are quietly succeeding and making breakthroughs in advancing security.

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T.E.N., a national technology and security executive networking organization, facilitates peer-to-peer relationships between top executives, industry visionaries and solutions providers. Nominated for numerous industry awards, T.E.N.’s executive leadership programs enable information exchange, collaboration and decision-making. Its flagship program, the nationally-acclaimed Information Security Executive® (ISE®) of the Year Program Series and Awards, is North America’s largest leadership… Show more

T.E.N., a national technology and security executive networking organization, facilitates peer-to-peer relationships between top executives, industry visionaries and solutions providers. Nominated for numerous industry awards, T.E.N.’s executive leadership programs enable information exchange, collaboration and decision-making. Its flagship program, the nationally-acclaimed Information Security Executive® (ISE®) of the Year Program Series and Awards, is North America’s largest leadership recognition and networking program for security professionals. Show less

T.E.N., a national technology and security executive networking organization, facilitates peer-to-peer relationships between top executives, industry visionaries and solutions providers. Nominated for numerous industry awards, T.E.N.’s executive leadership programs enable information exchange, collaboration and decision-making. Its flagship program, the nationally-acclaimed Information Security Executive® (ISE®) of the Year Program Series and Awards, is North America’s largest leadership… Show more

T.E.N., a national technology and security executive networking organization, facilitates peer-to-peer relationships between top executives, industry visionaries and solutions providers. Nominated for numerous industry awards, T.E.N.’s executive leadership programs enable information exchange, collaboration and decision-making. Its flagship program, the nationally-acclaimed Information Security Executive® (ISE®) of the Year Program Series and Awards, is North America’s largest leadership recognition and networking program for security professionals. Show less

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