About

Danielle Alvarez
Cybersecurity Managing Director, Accenture

Danielle is a Managing Director with Accenture and is the Public Sector Security Lead for North America. Danielle is the former State Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Florida. Danielle has served in multiple cyber capacities since joining Accenture. She was the security architect for a Medicaid integration services and integration platform, with a next generation digital identity stack. This experience was underpinned by her prior public sector and healthcare experience, as well as adherence to a defense-in-depth strategy to design and implement the architecture. She also served as the security lead for a large-scale statewide ERP, leveraging her prior expertise as an IT auditor and her degree in accounting to deploy best of breed security tools. Danielle recently led the Security workstream for a cloud migration that was critical to various back-office operations for a Florida-based utility. Danielle continues to support these clients and brings a continuous improvement approach to each architecture, which ties to emerging technology, automation efficiencies, and risk-based methodologies. Danielle’s latest efforts are focused on workforce pipeline development by partnering with higher education institutions and embedding cyber resiliency across clients in critical infrastructure verticals.

Danielle’s main areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

• Security strategy & risk assessment
• IT audit and compliance
• Application & cloud security
• Security information and event monitoring (SIEM)
• Information security policies and standards
• Data protection/privacy

Danielle enjoys spending her free time with her husband and 4 children, primarily on a beach!