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About Brent Potter (Wyckoff)

Based in New York, Brent Potter of Wyckoff NJ serves as an information security leader and vice president of vulnerability management at Morgan Stanley. An executive leader in information technology and technical engineering, he possesses a diverse technological skill set that enabled him to create a vulnerability reporting program to support the firm’s governance, risk, and compliance model. His role at Morgan Stanley includes utilizing IT tools and solutions to address objectives for business and IT security and proactively respond to potential security threats. Brent Potter of Wyckoff NJ also works closely with internal technology units and vendors in the business and technology sectors to provide security tooling and metrics.

Prior to his current role at Morgan Stanley, he held leadership positions in several other departments. He joined the company in 2000 as global ISG messaging and engineering manager, in which role he oversaw an international desktop engineering team and implemented enterprise-wide security programs. Brent Potter of Wyckoff NJ continued to work his way up over the next several years and became the entitlements solution group manager before accepting his current position.

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