Derrick A. Butts is the former Chief Information and Cybersecurity Officer at Truth Initiative. He is now the Principle at Continuums Corp. He works with enterprise businesses as a Digital Continuity and Cyber-business Transformation Advisor. Continuums helps CIO/CSO, and IT teams develop, manage, and architect offensive information security solutions with a focus on mission critical priorities. This includes IT operations, efficiency, productivity, revenue generation, compliance, enterprise technology refresh, and cyber-awareness training. Additionally, he addresses the “big picture” and “domino effect of cultural change” that also includes assessing the resilience of access control, cybersecurity posture, presence-based unified communication platforms, along with securing the virtual workforce. He’s developed and introduced a transitional engineering and logistics planning (TELPTM) framework to maximize the utilization of enterprise applications/services platforms in the cloud. Businesses have experienced a reduction of operational cost by 25% while seeing a 30-40% increase in productivity, satisfaction, and security awareness aptitude in overall end-users experience.
With 3.5 decades of systems information technology and security experience, his expertise includes enterprise business continuity design strategies - domestically and internationally, for cyber-secure infrastructures, interoperability, cloud computing, and virtual networking. Derrick has transformed enterprise environments with up to 700,000 employees and supported winning contracts up to $3.2B.
Over the last six years, Derrick has been a guest speaker/presenter for (ISC)2 Security Congress discussing cybersecurity/risk management strategies.
In 2021, Derrick was recognized by Security Magazine as one of the Top Cybersecurity Leaders. And in 2020, he was recognized by SC Magazine/Media as one the top Chief Security Officers for the Year.
Additionally, he's been a Martial Arts Practitioner, in over seven different styles, for over 46-years and holds a 4th Degree (Master Instructor) Black Belt in Tang Soo Do and Tai Chi.
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