Jason Lazerus

Jason Lazerus has spent two decades doing what most people only talk about at conferences — actually building and securing the infrastructure that keeps an enterprise running. As SVP and Director of Infrastructure & Security at Eastern Bank, he leads the teams responsible for the full technology stack of a 200-year-old financial institution, from server rooms to SailPoint, from firewall rules to merger cutovers.

His path there wasn't the usual one. He started on a help desk fielding 2,000 calls a month at Stony Brook Medicine, worked his way to Information Security Officer at the university, and then climbed through six progressively senior roles at Eastern Bank — earning seven "Above and Beyond" awards along the way. He holds a Master's in Digital Forensics, a wall of GIAC certifications, and a GIAC Advisory Board appointment.

Somewhere between managing bank mergers and data center migrations, he founded WeaveHub Technologies in 2025 — a company shipping a suite of mobile apps that put infrastructure monitoring, security operations, and network management in your pocket. He also builds open-source Home Assistant integrations, writes custom Terraform providers, and occasionally solders together an ESP32 wearable just to see what happens.

Before any of it, he spent fourteen years as a volunteer EMT on Long Island, eventually serving as President and Chief of Department at Port Jefferson EMS — managing 125 volunteers, running Incident Command, and negotiating budgets with multiple municipalities. The President's Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award sits on his shelf next to the GIAC plaques.