Meet Our Leadership

Pythia Cyber combines classic cybersecurity (NIST CSF-based) for the trusted rigor, Behavioral Science to address the large role that human behavior plays in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure experience to address the technological challenges.

Each of these ingredients is headed up within our organization by a domain expert:

1. John Sebes for the classic cybersecurity
2. Ted Hayes for the Behavioral Science
3. Brendan Hemingway for the IT infrastructure

We have all had decades of experience consulting in our separate fields. We had all reached the point in our separate careers where we can be a little choosy about which projects we undertake and which we do not. Brendan and John have known each other for many years, being in broadly similar lines of work. John's work has been at the top of the management pyramid, working with executives to set priorities and policies. Brendan's work has been in the thick of IT, developing and deploying software which required him to actually follow those priorities and policies. Despite their different perspectives, they shared a frustration with the limits of their engagements. As John put it, it was hard to believe that they were delivering lasting value because while they could each do their assigned tasks, long-term success was often undermined by their client's attitudes and behaviors. And changing attitudes and behaviors was outside the scope of their engagements.

Enter Ted Hayes, another long time friend of Brendan's, whose expertise lies squarely in that domain, the domain of changing attitudes and behaviors in the workplace.

The three of us had a number of exploratory meetings during which we confirmed our expectation that combining our three consulting practices would produce not merely a larger team but a better team. A team uniquely qualified to bring lasting value to organizations with minimal disruption to their operations at a reasonable price.

If you want to know more about us and how we work, you can visit our website at www.PythiaCyber.com.

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