EMPRESA/ENTIDAD
Director / Circulo Daat
Biography
  • Juan Manuel Vergara (51 years)
    • IT Professional with more than 28 years of experience in Cybersecurity
    • Graduated from Instituto Politécnico Nacional as Communications and Electronic Engineer
    • Postgraduate studies (MBA and Finance) in Universidad Anáhuac México Norte
    • As professional he owns the next certifications:
      • CISSP (from 2004)
      • CISA (from 2007)
      • CISM (from 2011)
    • Much of his professional career was spent on the end-user side where he was part of the computer security team at Bancomer (Now BBVA) for almost 6 years, managing part of the institution's security infrastructure at that time.
    • He formed the Computer Security area at the Anáhuac University, which led him to lead and implement different projects that helped lay the foundations of computer security to centralize and consolidate (securely) the main educational services.
    • He has evaluated and implemented different emerging technologies (in past years) that today have established themselves as leading technologies (Kaspersky, Aruba, Zscaler, Forescout) and now has a partnership with Enthec, Hackrocks and Kymatio.
    • He starts as partner and cybersecurity consultant in Círculo Daat in 2014, leading the Mexico’s north’s team.
    • In 2013 he joined the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León as a teacher, teaching the subject of “Security Architectures” for 4 years.
    • In 2023 he joined the Universidad Anáhuac Puebla as a teacher, teaching the subjects of “IT” and “Technological Innovation”.
    • Passionate about sports and particularly American football (member of the American football Hall Of Fame in Mexico).