Steve Bybee

Education: B.S.

Organizational Management

John Brown University

1999 : 2000

Associate of Science (A.S.)



Heartland Community College

1996 : 1997

None

Physical Therapy/Therapist

University of Evansville

1994 : 1996

Experience: I'm one of a team of great leaders in State Farm's Security Operations Center. I currently lead 3 different teams. The first team supports State Farm's Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform. They also build/enable self-service tools for our consumers, provide automation guidance to the Information Security Department and build/maintain custom SOAR apps. My second team takes advantage of the SOAR platform and is 100% dedicated to writing automation for our Incident Responst team that reduces security event/incident investigation time, improves accuracy of investigations, takes remediation actions and minimizes the time to mitigate. My third team owns/manages our cloud SaaS service for security Incident Management. Prior to leading these three teams, I co-lead our Incident Response team where I not only lead a team of analysts, but also acted as incident commander in security incidents, was directty responsible for incident communications, working with all levels of leadership across the enterprise and actively driving post-incident changes to imrpove our security posture. Lastly, I previously led the SOC's Strategy and Metrics team tasked both with driving our overall SOC strategy while compiling and sharing metrics that help tell our story.

2020 : Present

State Farm ®

Information Security Manager

I managed a team of Architecture Analysts and provided architecture direction to the Protective Technologies space within Information Security. The Protective Technologies space encompasses numerous NIST Protect capabilities including, firewall, anti-malware, web filtering/proxy, IDS/IPS, Windows client/server OS security, amongst several technologies and security capabilities. In this role I set an architectural vision for our product suite to focus on modernizing, automating and simplifying our security stack. My leadership and vision led to architectural decisions and redesigns of our entire email security stack and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions. In addition, that same vision and a partnership with our network infrastructure teams also led to key decision and eventual modernization of our internet security controls. These decisions both aligned with our overall IT strategy and Information Security strategies and represented major, but necessary change to meet the challenges evolving threat landscape.

2018 : 2020

State Farm ®

Service Manager/IT Architect

I work in Information Security managing a team of Infrastructure Security Analyst. My team's own numerous products in the Identity and Access Management space. We have purview over the associate identity repository, web access management, identity federation and multi-factor authentication. We primarily function as an enablement team researching new/updated products, designing and implementing products and then providing 3rd level problem management/support for those products.

Prior to moving to Information Security at the beginning of 2015, I worked in managed a team with has operational responsibility for tape storage across 4 Data Centers and another team that wrote mainframe jobs to create thousands of business reports across multiple lines of business.

2013 : 2018

State Farm Insurance

Service Manager

1) I stood up a new mobile device hardware team that managed all the mobile devices used for testing and development of State Farm's mobile applications and mobile web framework. This team managed the lifecycle of Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices end-to-end. 2) I was the acting Project Manager for an enterprise equipment (PCs, laptops, printers, scanners, AIOs, etc.) rollout projects which deployed over 50,000 client devices across the enterprise. 3) I was the acting Project Manager for the first official Macintosh hardware rollout effort which deployed approximately 500 new Macs. 4) I was the acting Project Manager for 3 separate client hardware qualification projects which evaluated, tested and certified new client hardware's readiness for use across the enterprise.

2011 : 2013

State Farm Insurance

Technical Analyst-Hardware

I was part of a new team focused on creating some standards/guidance on mobile application/device security. I primarily operated as the Microsoft representative on the team, but also performed iOS/Android work due Microsoft's small market share.

2010 : 2011

State Farm Insurance

Technical Analyst-Mobility Security Team

Company: State Farm ®

Years of Experience: 22