About Vaunted Group

Mark Feferman

CISSP · CSSLP · CISM · CxCE
Founder / Principal, Vaunted Group

I started at BindView when it was a small team of 14 and watched it grow to 750 people, do an IPO, hitting a $2B market cap, and finally getting acquired by Symantec. After that I spent time building and running security practices at Fishnet Security and HP, worked enterprise cybersecurity programs at Ernst & Young, and spent a few years on the vendor side with Checkmarx and Bright Security.

Since November 2025 I've been a Principal Solutions Architect at Trace3, working with clients on DevSecOps, AppSec, API security, AI, and cloud security. The work is always a mix of people, process, and technology — plan your work, work your plan.

I spend personal time independently researching and writing about AI's impact on enterprise security — specifically how organizations should think about integrating AI into secure development workflows, securing LLM deployments, and the governance questions that come with it.

Credentials

CISSP · CSSLP · CISM · CxCE
B.A. Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

Career History

• Trace3 — Principal Solutions Architect (2025–Present)
• Bright Security — Americas Solution Engineering (2024–2025)
• Checkmarx — Strategic/Channel Senior Solution Engineer (2019–2024)
• Ernst & Young — Manager, Cybersecurity (2017–2019)
• Vaunted Group — Founder/Principal (2014–Present)
• Hewlett Packard — Managing Principal (2012–2014)
• Fishnet Security — Practice Director (2010–2012)
• Halliburton — Application Security Compliance Lead (2006–2010)
• BindView (Symantec) — Software Development / Configuration Management Director (1993–2001)
• Education: B.A. Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

Location

Houston, TX

Contact

"Security is never just a technology problem. It's a people problem, a process problem, and a technology problem — usually in that order."