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Anthony Matar

🧙🔮 defender of digital realms 🔮🧙

#cedarcyber

README

Hey! I lead security programs and stay in the work across operations, identity, AI, cloud, appsec, and GRC. #Player-coach. Using this page to bring a resume to life and to collect my writing and speaking.

Things I Do

🛡️ SecOps

SIEM, SOAR, MSSPs, DLP, IDS, EDR, SASE, SEG, incident response.

🔐 IAM

SSO, MFA, phishing-resistant auth, device binding, PAM.

📜 GRC

SOC 2, ISO 27001, risk management, audits, control frameworks.

☁️ AppSec & CloudSec

ASPM, CSPM, vulnerability management, DevSecOps, SSDLC, bug bounty.

🔍 TPRM

Vendor assessments, due diligence, lifecycle and ongoing monitoring.

💻 Endpoint Security

MDM, secure baselines, patching, hardening, enterprise browsers.

📈 Program Leadership

Strategy, KPI reporting, budgeting, talent management, cross-functional leadership.

😶‍🌫️ Privacy

PIA, DPA, data classification, privacy by design.

🚀 Go-to-Market Security

Security questionnaires, RFPs, Trust Center, reviews, contract support.

Tech I Use

Hover any logo to see a musing or spicy take 🌶️

1Password logo
Aikido logo
Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo
Bugcrowd logo
CrowdStrike logo
Conveyor logo
Datadog logo
Drata logo
Expel logo
KnowBe4 logo
Google Workspace logo
Google Cloud logo
Jamf logo
Jira Software logo
LogicGate logo
macOS logo
Microsoft 365 logo
Okta logo
Opsgenie logo
PagerDuty logo
Proofpoint logo
SafeBase logo
Slack logo
Snyk logo
Wiz logo
Island logo
Zapier logo
Zscaler logo

📜 standards/regs I speak

Hover any logo to see the standard name and a quick take.

SOC 2 logo
ISO 27001 logo
GDPR logo
HIPAA logo

Writing & Talks

things I've written and places I've spoken

February 2026 cedarcyber.github.io

Where is Security's "Great Leap Forward?"

Developers now have AI agents that orchestrate their entire workflow. Security practitioners are still doing the dashboard dance. Part One of a series on what security's equivalent leap forward could look like.

February 2025 ChiBrrCon IV

Prompt it till you make it

AI copilots for Security Growth — how security practitioners can harness AI tools to scale their programs and accelerate their careers.

2021 Agility 2021

How LogicGate Uses Risk Cloud

A talk at LogicGate's Agility 2021 conference on how LogicGate uses its own Risk Cloud platform. The talk wasn't recorded, but a related marketing video is available on YouTube.

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