Desra Secure Leadership Brings Decades of Cleared Enterprise IT and Cybersecurity Execution to the Defense Industrial Base

Unlike advisory firms that operate purely at the policy level, Desra Secure's leadership brings extensive hands-on experience engineering, securing, and defending enterprise-scale military networks. Mr. Young's background includes direct operational support for massive defense infrastructure, including managing network security and endpoint hardening for enterprise environments supporting over 2,500 users across major medical and outlying military facilities.

"We do not just write the compliance paperwork; we have actually turned the wrenches on the networks that support the warfighter," said Mr. Young. "When we advise a defense contractor on how to implement zero trust architecture or secure a hybrid cloud environment, it is based on years of executing those exact migrations inside the wire."

The firm's technical foundation is built on deep expertise in the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and continuous monitoring tools including ACAS, SCAP Compliance Checker, and HBSS. Mr. Young has successfully led Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes for highly classified weapon systems and cloud packages, ensuring compliance with JSIG, FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST, and CNSSI requirements.

Beyond traditional infrastructure, Desra Secure's leadership possesses specialized experience in securing cloud-native and SaaS/PaaS environments within AWS GovCloud. This includes developing the necessary System Security Plans (SSPs), CONOPS, and Incident Response protocols to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and emerging AI/LLM-enabled platforms.

Desra Secure leverages this frontline engineering and cybersecurity experience to deliver robust, scalable, and fully compliant technology solutions to the Defense Industrial Base. The firm operates out of Central Florida, supporting clients across the state's major defense corridors — MacDill AFB, Patrick Space Force Base, Eglin AFB, Hurlburt Field, NAS Pensacola, NAS Jacksonville, and the surrounding USSOCOM, USCENTCOM, and USSPACECOM mission sets.

Desra Secure is an operator-led, cleared firm headquartered in Central Florida that delivers cybersecurity, systems and network engineering, IT operations, facility security, and program support to the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Defense Industrial Base.