Patrick Carter - Senior Director, Cloud Practice
Patrick Carter has 15 years of industry experience across Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Security Program Management, and Strategic Consulting.
He has a strong understanding of Multi-Cloud Security Architecture, working with both commercial and enterprise-level clients in Azure, AWS, and GCP. He has extensive experience in practice development and service optimization utilizing multiple disciplines.
Prior to joining Cyderes, Patrick built a cloud security consulting practice that provided services centered around AWS, Azure, and GCP. Spending most of his career in consulting, Patrick has worked with clients across many industries; including finance, healthcare, retail, government, and defense. Patrick is passionate about developing cloud security programs that meet our clients’ specific needs, and building strong relationships that enable our clients to secure their cloud journey.
David Branscome - Microsoft Global Partner Security Architect
As a Global Partner Solutions Security Architect at Microsoft, David supports managed partners in the US with training on Microsoft security technologies for Azure and Microsoft 365, as well as the development of business strategies for selling and competing in the market. With over 15 years of experience in Microsoft architecture, design, deployment, and management, he has a deep understanding of the complex and evolving security challenges and opportunities in the cloud era.
David's mission is to enable and empower Microsoft partners to deliver secure and innovative solutions to their customers, leveraging the latest Microsoft security capabilities and best practices. He also contributes to the global enablement of Microsoft partners who sell, deploy, and support security, compliance, and identity workloads for Azure and Microsoft 365.
Branscome has co-authored a chapter on networking for a Microsoft Press book and published various topics related to Microsoft cloud technologies on the Microsoft website.
