George Platsis
An industry-recognized leader with over 20 years of professional experience, Platsis attained United States permanent residency, and subsequent citizenship, as an EB-1A Alien of Extraordinary Ability for his work as a Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy Specialist, with work experience in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.
He has a multi-disciplinary background in Business Administration, Disaster and Emergency Management, Law, Cybersecurity, National/International Security, and Artificial Intelligence, completing five university degrees and multiple senior executive certificates before age of 35. He holds AIGP, CCISO, CISSP, ECIH, and EDRP professional certifications, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure cloud certifications, and ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001 lead auditor certifications.
Platsis has advised, managed, and delivered projects for external and internal stakeholders across multiple verticals, ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to governments, and small and medium businesses, including one-on-one coaching and training for executives, VIPs, and high net worth individuals.
He has completed advisory, assessment, and investigative projects in the fields of digital risk, governance, risk management, compliance, cyber-/information-/data- security, privacy, digital forensics, eDiscovery, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and organizational resilience.
In addition, his work experience includes emergency management, pandemic planning, and bioweapon research, as well as support for corporate projects, including finance, operations, budgeting, and transformation. He regularly serves as a project manager, career manager, and consultative expert to support testifiers.
A regular keynote and panel speaker for risk, security, future tech, and artificial intelligence related issues, Platsis also has testimony experience before federal parliamentary committees (Canada).
As a content creator, with works published in industry-leading and award-winning publications, including IBM Security Intelligence, Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security, Nextgov/FCW, Tripwire State of Security, Homeland Security Today, Security InfoWatch, and others, his works have achieved a Top 5 ranking for page views, organic traffic, and social traffic on IBM Security Intelligence and his original #55SecondsOfCybersecurity video shorts receive thousands of weekly impressions.
In addition to professional workshops, Platsis has developed and delivered modules and course programs for undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in the fields of business development, business ethics, disaster and emergency management, cybersecurity, and anti-terrorism.