Dianne Powers

Built by Someone Who Has Been in the Room

I help regulated organizations build the incident response capability they need before the breach. Not during it.

My career spans financial services, critical infrastructure, state government consulting, and enterprise technology advisory, progressing through some of the most demanding security environments in the country. For the past six years I have concurrently served as a Cybersecurity Program Manager at a government agency, applying NIST cybersecurity frameworks, while building The Pearltech Group.

At GE I led governance, risk, and compliance programs across international and domestic operations, directing SOC attestations, annual internal assessments, and enterprise compliance efforts across sites in England, Italy, Hungary, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. At Entergy, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States serving 2.7 million customers across four states, I served as Incident Response Lead , writing IR playbooks and leading IR efforts while enforcing NERC CIP cybersecurity compliance standards for critical national power infrastructure.

At Tata Consultancy Services I managed a globally dispersed incident response team as a Managed Services Consultant, with AMD as my primary client. At Deloitte I was an Advisory Services Specialist Master in Government Services, consulting state government agencies on building and optimizing incident response programs.

Today I serve as a full-time Cybersecurity Program Manager consultant at a global asset management firm operating at the scale and regulatory complexity of BlackRock, Citadel, and Carlyle. In scope and accountability, my role operates at the VP to Senior VP level.