Rich Radford is a director in the Managed Detection & Response Cybersecurity practice at AccountabilIT. Rich consults with customers to implement NIST & CIS-based security best practices to build XDR solutions for assessment, design, deployment, management and security of customer technology (on prem, in the cloud or hybrid). AccountabilIT earned the rare Microsoft Cloud Security Advanced Specialization and is ranked by MSSP Alert as 1 of the top 100 MSSPs in the world. Rich has worked in cybersecurity for over 20 years. Prior to joining AccountabilIT, Rich worked for security industry titans BAE Systems & Cisco Systems. A Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Rich has earned numerous IT certifications including the BAE Systems Digital Intelligence certification in Digital Forensics Incident Response Essentials.