[ 01 · portfolio.mc ]

Marcus Cylar

Ministry. Cybersecurity.

Your human in the loop—helping organizations reduce cyber risk and increase cyber resilience by empowering people to make better security decisions.

Marcus Cylar
[ speaker · strategist ]
DFIR → GRC
DFIR //
GRC //
MINISTRY //
STRATEGY //
AWARENESS //
TABLETOPS //
NIST CSF //
ISO 27001 //
CIS CONTROLS //
HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP //
DFIR //
GRC //
MINISTRY //
STRATEGY //
AWARENESS //
TABLETOPS //
NIST CSF //
ISO 27001 //
CIS CONTROLS //
HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP //
[ 03 · what i do ]

Services, translated for humans.

[ 01 ]

Security Awareness & Training

Turn employees into your strongest control.

Custom awareness programs that go beyond compliance checkboxes. Behaviorally-grounded content, tabletop-inspired scenarios, and briefings that make security feel like stewardship — not surveillance.

[ 02 ]

Tabletop Exercises

Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.

Design and facilitation of incident response tabletops using the PICERL framework. Actionable post-exercise reports that surface control deficiencies and audit-ready remediation paths.

[ 03 ]

Keynote & Conference Speaking

Cyber stories that move rooms.

Talks on human-centric security, GRC as culture, AI ethics for non-technical leaders, and building continuous awareness programs. Simply Cyber Con speaker (2023, 2024, 2025).

[ 04 · from the stage ]

Cyber stories that move rooms.

Three-time Simply Cyber Con speaker, ministerial teacher, GRC evangelist. I translate complex risk into decisions your people can act on.

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AI Proliferation and Organizational Maturity Demand a Cyber Awareness Overhaul (In Development)

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Reforming cybersecurity awareness training. De-emphasizing compliance-based training that promotes strong awareness through empowered decision making.

Build Your Own Cyber Threat Brief

November 3, 2025
Simply Cyber Con 2025

Leveraging the Weekly News Brief to build a strong security awareness culture. Operationalizing threat intelligence into repeatable risk communication.

AI Ethics & Responsible Use in Ministry (Two-part series)

October–November 2025
Oak Grove AME Church, Detroit, MI

Educating ministerial staff on AI capabilities, emerging risks, and ethical decision-making frameworks. Introducing governance concepts to non-technical leaders.

[ 05 · insights ]

Tips on cyber resilience, fresh from the field.

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AI GovernanceAug 4, 2026

Welcome back! Also, a few thoughts on that AI governance thing everybody's talking about.

It's been a minute since I had a website up, but I'm back — with a few thoughts on AI governance that didn't make the podcast cut.

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