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 deploy XDR solutions and Security Operations Center services. AccountabilIT has a Denver office, earned the rare Microsoft Cloud Security and Threat Protection Advanced Specializations, 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.