Chell Mendiola

Chell Mendiola

Cybersecurity & Risk in San Francisco, She/Her

About

I'm a believer.

I believe a secure enterprise starts with its people. My goal is to foster secure habits through hacking the human bean to develop good security habits.

I believe good design changes lives and good education saves lives. To that end, I do security and awareness with a dash of visual design.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
San Francisco

Cribl powers Security and IT as the ultimate data engine. At Cribl, I’m part historian, custodian, and strategist: crafting docs, creating content, and persuading teams to engage—all to build clarity and shape the game plan for conquering the next fiscal year. And the year after that.

2021 — 2022
San Francisco

Lead metrics-driven security training, policy creation, and user portal management. Collaborate across teams to deliver and promote training on security, SDLC, and data privacy.

Craft communications, visualize metrics with Brand/Marketing, and drive engagement via blogs, presentations, and Slack. Developed Risk Governance runbooks and launched an intern program.

2016 — 2021
San Francisco

2017 - 2021

  • Sat on the Cyber Security Assurance team; ran SOC 2 annual certification. Built Risk Register prototype in Jira, drafted enterprise risk, SOC 2 & COSO kbase in Confluence for end users and auditors. Contributed to FedRAMP documentation.

  • Wrote related security documentation and runbooks. Ran risk and SOC 2 education.

2016 - 2017

  • Operationalized and documented IT processes for automation.

  • Admined Atlassian stack of tools: Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible. Wrote and published end user support kbase articles.

Projects

2021
SANS Security Summit

A short talk, What I Learned at SANS Security Summit, and it took off. Short, actionable, and still relevant three years later. Spoiler: the problem is (still) humans.

Side Projects

2021
Legal & Privacy T-shirt Ideas at Chime

One of the best legal & privacy teams I've ever worked with wanted a "fun shirt," enter Canva (yep) to sketch ideas. O'Reilly cover spoof - homage to them and to O RLY? Because in cybersecurity, you gotta make your own fun.