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Megan Restuccia serves as Chief Architect of Workforce Technology, Employee Experience and Head of Cloud Architecture for Employee Platforms at JPMorganChase. A longtime instructor at SANS and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute, Megan currently teaches LDR520: Emerging Trends for Cyber Leaders: AI and Cloud and ISE 5701: Situational Response Practicum. Her career has taken her from hands-on infrastructure and security roles into enterprise architecture, technology risk, CISO leadership, and cloud. That range gives her a practical view of how technology decisions play out inside large, complex organizations.
Megan started her career in technical and consulting roles before managing large computing environments at Columbia University and serving as Information Security Manager for Columbia University Medical Center. She later moved into financial services, taking on engineering, operational risk, program leadership, and technology management roles at Morgan Stanley and JPMorganChase. She went on to serve as Head of Infrastructure Operations and CISO at PJT Partners before joining AWS, where she worked on cloud architecture and data residency for global financial services. Across those roles, she has spent much of her career balancing security, technology, risk, and the realities of getting large organizations to advance their security programs.
Megan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from William Paterson University. Her certifications span cloud, security, malware analysis, and systems engineering, including CISSP, Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), and several AWS certifications. She began teaching with SANS in 2001 and has taught courses covering security essentials, secure coding, malware analysis, web application security, data protection, and other technical disciplines. She also authored SANS training on data leakage prevention.
Teaching has been a constant throughout Megan’s career. She has served on William Paterson University’s Computer Science Advisory Board since 2009 and has spent more than a decade coaching youth volleyball. Whether she is working with students, engineers, or senior technology leaders, she brings the same approach: understand the technology, ask good questions, and help people make decisions they can use.
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