Salman Faiz is a highly accomplished Cyber and Risk Advisor with over 15 years of experience in Global Security and Risk Management. He has an impressive track record of designing and implementing effective strategies, roadmaps, and frameworks for regulated industries. With exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, Salman is committed to partnering with key IT and business stakeholders to drive initiatives focused on assessing and improving security and risk posture. He is an expert in mitigating client risks and reducing exposure to security threats and challenges while still enabling their business to grow and remain operational with the ultimate goal of protecting the client's assets and their brand/reputation.

Salman has helped architect, advised on, and facilitated a range of security and risk management solutions for his clients. He has worked on outcome-based, vendor-agnostic solutioning, managed security services management, privacy and data protection strategy, cloud security assessment, security project governance, oversight, and compliance audit readiness and assessment. He is an expert in threat and risk modeling, governance, risk management, and compliance realization, and he has significant expertise in TPRM, IAM assessment, micro-segmentation, security technology upgrading, tuning, and optimization. Salman is also an expert in incident mitigation and IR plan review, security awareness campaign development, and security technology bake-offs.

Salman's educational background includes a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Data Protection and Privacy Law Course from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and a Non-Degree Program in Healthcare Informatics from the University of Chicago.