Jake Johansen, the Director of Enterprise Security at the University of Utah, possesses two decades of experience in various information security roles within the university and a total of 25 years in the field. Passionate about driving cultural shifts for improved risk management in complex organizations, he currently supports an initiative to establish centralized security visibility across a large research and educational institution, which includes numerous autonomous IT groups. Throughout his career, Jake actively contributed to security incident response teams and conducted security assessments. These experiences have reinforced his belief in the fundamental importance of IT basics in safeguarding organizations. He's noted that most vulnerabilities leading to security incidents or significant assessment findings are rooted in failures in these basics rather than complex exploits.