Steve Hosie, CISM®, CISSP-ISSAP®, CRISC®, CISA®, CGEIT®, CDPSE® is a Cybersecurity Executive Advisor & Strategist and a Cybersecurity Evangelist in Broadcom Software Group Mainframe Software Division. Steve has spent the past 36 years working on Mainframes and Cybersecurity, from securing mainframes in large complex data centers and writing security technical implementation guide articles (STIGs) on Mainframe cybersecurity controls to performing full audits and validations of Mainframes. Before moving from being a hands-on customer for 33 years to his current position, Steve was last responsible for over 110 Mainframe assets as the accountable security officer. He has worked with Top Secret (TSS), ACF2, and RACF-managed mainframes and is passionate about Cybersecurity and the Mainframe. IBM awarded Steve with IBM Champion for 2023.
Steve enjoys speaking on various topics from Cybersecurity, Mainframe security, Auditing mainframes, design custom jewelry to adult ADHD and enjoys sharing knowledge. He firmly believes that while knowledge is power, sharing knowledge is more powerful as it enables and empowers others.
Steve has authored and continues to write many z/OS mainframe security technical implementation guide articles, having discovered vulnerabilities and developed appropriate mitigation recommendations, helping to build, publish and implement standard measurable documented mainframe platform-specific technical security controls adopted by private and public sector organizations around the world.
As a passionate cybersecurity evangelist, Steve is always willing to meet with customers and openly discuss customer-specific challenges as well as those industry-wide challenges that involve the Mainframe and cybersecurity from a practitioner's point of view to the viewpoint of audit and compliance. In addition, he loves collaborating and thinking outside of the box to find workable and valued solutions to solve the challenges customers face.
Steve also enjoys using CAD and technology to design and create beautiful fine jewelry, particularly jewelry that honors the service of his fellow veterans. He served on active duty from 1986 to 1993 in the US Marine Corps for seven years working on IBM Mainframes and Mainframe Security.
Steve is the founder of “Veterans in IT” group on Linkedin and FB Professional Mainframers group with over 10,300+ members https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers
Feel free to connect with Steve on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehosie/
Or: Steven.Hosie@Broadcom.com Phone: +1(303)-517-8645
Email: steven.hosie@broadcom.com
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