Keena McDonald Blunschi

It fills me with immense pride seeing Chase colleagues highlighting their promotions and/or congratulating their teammates, and it’s made me reflect on my career journey. I’d like to share a few tips that have been helpful for me. Change is constant: What I have found over the last two decades of my professional career is that you have to be open to changes and challenges. Traveling to the U.S. for my master's at Kansas State was a big leap and challenge for me, but I would not be where I’m at today if I closed myself off from the incredible opportunities I was offered. Careers aren’t linear: It's by no means a simple path. Taking on lateral moves can be a hard pill to swallow, but it will also open more learning opportunities for you and make you a more well-rounded professional. Do you have any tips on career development? Share them below! #careerjourney #mobility

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We're proud to share that First Citizens Bank has joined the Executive Women's Forum (EWF) as a corporate Benefactor - strengthening our commitment to advancing women in cybersecurity, risk management, and privacy The EWF has long been a cornerstone for developing and connecting women leaders across our industry. Through this partnership, we're creating new opportunties for our talented women professionals to engage, grow, and lead within a global community that shares our values of inclusion, excellence, and innovation. Special thanks to Sasha Spalding and Brianne Kohl, who will serve as our corporate champions. Together, we're invested in the future of cybersecurity - one where diverse perspectives drive stronger outcomes and lasting impact. #EWF #WomenInCybersecurity #Leadership #Inclusion #Cybersecurity

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Discover how enhancements to OpsGPT®, Broadridge's cutting-edge AI-powered operations solution with new agentic capabilities, can help you revolutionize your global post-trade operations. Key benefits include accelerated fails resolution, inventory optimization, email integration automation and a simplified user experience. For all the details, check out the press release: http://spklr.io/6046CPyp

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Take a look behind the scenes at how the FIS® Cyberfusion Center strengthens defenses against cyber threats and streamlines detection and response to cybersecurity events for FIS financial services clients. http://spr.ly/60420vNn6

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Sustainability isn’t just good optics—it’s essential for resilience and long-term success in today’s financial landscape. In his latest opinion piece for American Banker, Joe Myers, EVP Global Banking, outlines how FIs can turn risk into opportunities and build a more sustainable, profitable future through tech modernization.

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I’m pleased to share Part 2 of our Chase Data Lake migration story: “Teaming Up to March Forward” on the Next at Chase blog. 🚀 This chapter highlights how our Data Engineering organization reimagined team structures and roles to drive a successful transition from on-premises Hadoop to AWS. The heart of our progress? Our people and their collaboration. Key takeaways from Part 2: • Pods and Squads: We introduced a matrix structure—Pods focused on migrating domain-specific data marts, and Squads dedicated to specialized functions like Data Lineage, MetaFix, Pipeline Migration, Data Validation and Automation. This approach fostered autonomy, cross-functional problem-solving and continual improvement. • Definition of Done: Clear, repeatable checklists for each data mart ensured teams knew exactly when a stage was complete, driving accountability and consistency. • Friction Point Management: With thousands involved, we set up program-level friction point management to prioritize and resolve high-impact issues quickly, empowering teams to overcome challenges together. I’m incredibly proud of how my Data Technology teams partnered across Chase, leveraging creativity and collaboration to deliver 98% of high-priority datasets in record time. This scalable, repeatable model sets us up for future success and long-term data stability. Read the full article to see how teamwork and a unified approach made this massive migration possible. Special thanks to Sudhir Rao, Praveen Tandra, Gerard Kirk and Chandramouli Modigunta for documenting our journey. #DataTechnology #CloudMigration #Teamwork #Innovation

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It was a pleasure to share how lenders can strengthen their resilience against cyber threats with Chetan (Che) Bhatia and Sofia Kokolis, CISSP at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA’s) Servicing Solutions Conference last week. Below were some of the strategies I shared: 1. Attacks against the identity plain, cloud misconfigurations, weaknesses in software.    - Attacks in the identity plain combine two vectors            - Attack weak or Non-existent MFA            - Social Engineering   - Mark Twain said, "Be careful what you read about your health, you could die of a misprint. In cyber, Be careful what you click on in the cloud, you could die of a breach.    - Make sure controls are in place to ensure misconfigurations do not occur    - Automating workflows and controls in the cloud are a plus    - Weaknesses in software - run SAST, DAST, IAST tests for each major update in the code base before release 2. Assets, Attack Surface, Mitigations - A2M    - What’s in your environment?    - Who’s trying to attack?    - Does your InfoSec Program, " Investigate Every Alert and Detect Incidents Now?" That’s a handy mnemonic to remember the Zero Trust defense focus areas. If you defend everywhere, you defend no where.           - Identities           - Endpoints           - Applications           - Data           - Infrastructure           - Networks 3. A best practice for continuous improvement is asking yourself does your InfoSec program allow "Great Ideas to Promote Dynamic Results Rapidly?" That’s a handy mnemonic to remember the six functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework or NIST CSF.           - Govern           - Identify           - Protect           - Detect           - Response           - Recover 4. Some immediate actions all people and organizations should take if you’re the victim of a cyber breach    - Stop the Bleeding    - Start the Breathing    - Treat for Shock I often refer to cyber actions in terms of the human body and trauma centers. In Cyber Incident Response terms    - Stop the bleeding - contain the event    - Start the breathing - resume business    - Treat for shock- lessons learned, after action #humanresources  #careers #informationsecurity #leadership #career #cybersecurity #training #tech #veterans #infosec

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