Scott Sykes

As of November 2024, Scott Sykes was the Chief Information Security Officer of Asurity Technologies, a role he took up in August 2023.

Career path

Sykes previously served as Senior Director of the Global Security Organization at Netcracker Technology in Boston.

He also held CISO roles at Netcracker Technology and at Tata Communications, where he steered compliance programs to meet security requirements imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice as well as customer-mandated specifications.

Across his career he built and implemented global security programs, working with government regulatory bodies in the United States and the European Union, and he developed and managed security organizations spanning security operations center, GRC, audits, application security, infrastructure security and customer delivery.

He was formerly a board member of the Virginia Cyber Security Partnership in Richmond, Virginia.

Sykes joined Asurity Technologies on August 15, 2023, as Chief Information Security Officer, with responsibility for overseeing all aspects of data security and compliance on an enterprise-wide basis.

On joining, Sykes said, "I am excited to join Asurity at this pivotal time of growth,"

Published work and remit

In 2019, while at Netcracker Technology, Sykes co-authored The Importance of Securing Sensitive Data in a 5G World with Samuel Visner, published by Security Magazine on April 15, 2019.

As CISO at Asurity, Sykes has written client-facing security newsletters. In one dated October 14, 2024, titled Has Your Data Been Compromised?, he described the high likelihood that personal data has already been exposed given the volume of recent breaches in banking, healthcare, and communications, and pointed readers to dark-web breach-check resources.

In a newsletter dated November 8, 2024, titled Be Aware of Fraudulent Activity, Sykes wrote about scams targeting senior citizens, noting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported scammers inflicted over $3.4 billion in losses on older Americans in 2023, and that tactics increasingly exploit anxieties fueled by social media content.