Rachel Phillips
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Offering Lead for Agile Cyber Advisory, a capability that uses innovative techniques and problem solving frameworks to right size traditional cybersecurity strategy consulting work into agile, lean, outcome-driven engagements that provide maximum value at lower costs.
Chief of Staff for North America Cyber Strategy Practice (Nov 2022-Present) -- Support North America Cyber Strategy Practice Lead with management, strategy, program execution and oversight, business operations of their Leadership Team and practice.
2021 : Present
Accenture
Accenture Security - Cybersecurity Strategy Consulting Senior Manager
Led security innovation and consulting teams to develop and deliver cybersecurity engagements for CISO and senior cybersecurity executives (CISO, CIO, SVP, Senior Director, etc.), primarily around on cybersecurity roadmap/strategic planning, and other cyber defense initiatives.
2019 : 2021
Accenture
Accenture Security - Cyber Defense Advisory Manager
Helped clients improve their ability to protect, defend, respond, and recover through innovative ways of working -- prototyping the latest security technology from our R&D pipeline, using design-thinking to tackle problems in new ways, and building immersive experiences.
2018-2019 Client Innovation Services Lead @ Accenture's Washington DC Cyber Fusion Center
2015-2018 Client Innovation Services Lead @ Accenture's Cyber R&D Lab
2015 : 2019
Accenture
Accenture Security - Client Innovation Services Lead
Embedded with Army Corps of Engineers Chief to provide technical consulting and support services around the management, operations, and upgrade of a major MIS system.
2014 : 2015
Definitive Logic
Technical Consultant, US Army Corps of Engineers
Google Professional Services Organization (PSO) partner. Specialized in strategy, planning and deployment for Google in the Enterprise. Captured new international business in the Google market space to Go Google with global, enterprise scale customers. Google SME advisory services to international clients, including largest deployment of Google's platform at the time (44k users).
Note : Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) merged with HPE's Enterprise Services line to create DXC Technology in 2017
2010 : 2014
CSC
Google Business Change Lead, EMEA Region
About
Rachel is a Senior Manager in Accenture Security's Cyber Strategy practice with 13+ years experience serving clients around the world. She began her career in technology consulting and large scale enterprise cloud transformations before her interests shifted to cybersecurity. Her current focus areas include cyber strategic planning and roadmap development, cyber organizational design and strategy (operating model development), and cybersecurity metrics and executive/board reporting.
Rachel excels at problem solving and is well-known for her first principles approach to tackling cybersecurity challenges with her client executives (e.g., CIO, CTO, CISO, SVP, Senior Director, etc.). She is a master of design thinking and workshop facilitation and uses these innovative techniques together with her expert communication skills to work hand-in-hand with client teams, rapidly building solutions and strategies to conquer big cybersecurity problems. She also advises and coaches teams on how to leverage these techniques to better solve problems in their own specialty security capability areas.
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