[ 01 · portfolio.mc ]

Marcus Cylar

Ministry. Cybersecurity.

Your human in the loop — helping organizations reduce cyber risk and increase cyber resilience by empowering people to make better security decisions.

Marcus Cylar
[ speaker · strategist ]
DFIR → GRC
DFIR //
GRC //
MINISTRY //
STRATEGY //
AWARENESS //
TABLETOPS //
NIST CSF //
ISO 27001 //
CIS CONTROLS //
HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP //
DFIR //
GRC //
MINISTRY //
STRATEGY //
AWARENESS //
TABLETOPS //
NIST CSF //
ISO 27001 //
CIS CONTROLS //
HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP //
[ 03 · what i do ]

Services, translated for humans.

[ 01 ]

Security Awareness & Training

Turn employees into your strongest control.

Custom awareness programs that go beyond compliance checkboxes. Behaviorally-grounded content, tabletop-inspired scenarios, and briefings that make security feel like stewardship — not surveillance.

[ 02 ]

GRC Advisory

Frameworks, translated into action.

NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001 alignment reviews. Control gap analysis, risk registers, and remediation roadmaps written for humans, not auditors.

[ 03 ]

Tabletop Exercises

Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

Design and facilitation of incident response tabletops using the PICERL framework. Actionable post-exercise reports that surface control deficiencies and audit-ready remediation paths.

[ 04 ]

Keynote & Conference Speaking

Cyber stories that move rooms.

Talks on human-centric security, GRC as culture, AI ethics for non-technical leaders, and building continuous awareness programs. Simply Cyber Con speaker (2023, 2024, 2025).

[ 04 · from the stage ]

Cyber stories that move rooms.

Three-time Simply Cyber Con speaker, ministerial teacher, GRC evangelist. I translate complex risk into decisions your people can act on.

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Build Your Own Cyber Threat Brief

November 3, 2025
3rd Annual Simply Cyber Con

Leveraging the Weekly News Brief to build a strong security awareness culture. Operationalizing threat intelligence into repeatable risk communication.

AI Ethics & Responsible Use in Ministry

October–November 2025
AME 4th Episcopal District (Two-part series)

Educating ministerial staff on AI capabilities, emerging risks, and ethical decision-making frameworks. Introducing governance concepts to non-technical leaders.

Tabletopping Like a Boss

November 1, 2024
2nd Annual Simply Cyber Con

Stay ready so you don't have to get ready. Design and execution of incident response tabletop exercises for readiness, control validation, and gap identification.

[ 05 · insights ]

Tips on cyber resilience, fresh from the field.

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AI GovernanceAug 4, 2026

Welcome back! Also, a few thoughts on that AI governance thing everybody's talking about.

It's been a minute since I had a website up, but I'm back — with a few thoughts on AI governance that didn't make the podcast cut.

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