Cynthia M. Schultz

Senior Director Cybersecurity | CISSP | CISA | CISM | CRISC

Cynthia is a cybersecurity and cloud security professional with over 25 years of experience across defense, federal, and enterprise sectors. Specializing in risk management, she also teaches at Harvard University, has an MBA, and holds over 35 industry-specific certifications. Passionate about translating complex technical challenges into actionable, secure solutions, she assures CSPs’ security posture for both FedRAMP and DISA IL reviews.

All articles by Cynthia M. Schultz:

Conversations across the federal cloud security ecosystem have been oscillating between two narratives: one, that it is maturing, and another, that it is weakening. In reality, maturation is occurring in motion and transition in motion inevitably produces some ambiguity. For Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and their Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs), the current environment across the [...]

Many cloud services and SaaS providers are eager to enter the federal market, but many underestimate what it really takes to achieve a FedRAMP authorization. FedRAMP is not just a checklist or an exercise in paperwork; it’s a high stakes, high complexity, and high-cost project that demands the right people, the right systems, the right [...]

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