Kevin Walsh
CISO, Board Advisor
Seton Hall University•Newark, New Jersey, United States
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Business and people savvy cybersecurity leader with 15+ years’ experience delivering business-enabling security programs in a variety of industries including Media, Manufacturing, Real Estate, SaaS startups, Defense, retail, and Consumer Products. I lead teams by creating collaborative, consensus driven cultures that allow people ownership and autonomy in their work. Active in the security venture capital community as well as advising security and privacy startups and enterprises. Agentic AI enablement, Board Reporting, Enterprise Security, Application/Product Security, Security Operations, Data Privacy, Identity & Access Management, Security M&A Due Diligence, Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, ZeroTrust, Data Loss Prevention, Detection Engineering and Response, Vulnerability Management, GRC, Data Governance, Employee Education, Enterprise Risk Management, Incident Response, Insider Threat, and policy development. Compliance: Security: NIST CSF, ISO27001, SOC2 (Type I & Type II), CIS 8.0 | Privacy: GDPR, CPRA, HIPAA | Financial: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GLBA Safeguards, PCI Technology: Generative AI, hybrid, multi-cloud, cloud native | SaaS, PaaS, IaaS | AWS, GCP, Azure | Linux, Mac OS, Windows | Data Privacy Platforms | Firewalls, CSPM, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IAM, FIDO2, DLP, SDWAN, CASB, PAM
Career Timeline
- Seton Hall UniversityCurrentNov 2025–Present· 10 mos
- Board Member, AdvisorsCurrentNov 2025–Present
- Party CityCurrentAug 2024–Present· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Chief Information Security OfficerCurrentAug 2024–Present
- Dec 2022–Jun 2024· 1 yr 6 mos
- Head of Enterprise SecurityDec 2022–Jun 2024
- Nov 2021–Nov 2022· 1 yr
- Owner, PrincipalNov 2021–Nov 2022
- Jun 2012–Nov 2021· 9 yrs 5 mos
- Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security OfficerApr 2014–Nov 2021
- Director, Information TechnologyJun 2012–Apr 2014
- Jun 2012–Nov 2021· 9 yrs 5 mos
- Director, Information TechnologyJun 2012–Nov 2021
- Sep 2010–Jun 2012· 1 yr 9 mos
- Senior Network EngineerSep 2010–Jun 2012