Steve Drzaszcz

“I lead with people first — the IT and Security program is what we build along the way.”

Steve Drzaszcz is a Chief Information Security Officer and IT Leader with more than two decades in IT infrastructure, cybersecurity and networking, ten of them leading the security program for a regulated financial services organization from the ground up. He chairs the Information Security Committee, reports risk and maturity straight to the board, and owns everything from SIEM and SOC oversight to incident response and disaster recovery — grounded in FFIEC and NIST CSF frameworks and still hands-on with the architecture underneath.

His track record is built on turning complex projects into smooth, automated operations — cutting downtime across large-scale networks running Cisco, Fortinet, Meraki, Palo Alto, Juniper, and HP hardware. He's designed and run everything from global MPLS and DMVPN WANs to multi-tenant management platforms, hybrid Linux and Windows server environments, and enterprise virtualization, and he holds CCNA, JNCIA-ER, and ITIL v3 certifications along the way.

But ask anyone who's actually worked with him, and the technology is only half the story. Steve is gregarious by nature — a mentor and a connector who builds security culture through training and real conversation rather than fear. That same instinct shows up well outside the office: he chairs the Technology Committee at his church, where he's led AV modernization and trained staff and volunteers for over a decade, and he makes regular time for music, an outlet as central to who he is as the work itself.