Wes Knight, CISO, Georgia Department of Revenue
After almost 20 years working for IBM in various IT roles and working under bosses of different temperaments, Wes Knight was perfectly happy to run his own training and consultancy firm…
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Clifford Stokes, Jr. CISO, Florida A&M University
Clifford Stokes Jr., Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Florida A&M University, has his cybersecurity strategy all mapped out. He sits down with his supervisor and produces a three-year plan,…
Garrett Smiley, CISO, Serco
Imagine someone running while juggling many different things, hoping he doesn’t drop anything. Serco’s Garrett Smiley says this would be an accurate description of the demands on a CISO. The…
Kevin Morrison, CISO, PulteGroup
In a way, it was music that led Kevin Morrison, the CISO of home construction firm PulteGroup, to a career in information security. “I was always musically inclined,” he says.…
Jim Routh, CSO, Aetna
On his first day as a CISO for financial giant American Express, Jim Routh learned a valuable lesson on the kindness of strangers. He looked at his calendar and…
Patricia Titus, Markel Corporation
Patricia Titus Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer Markel Corporation Author B.J. Neblett once wrote, “We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive…
Jonathan John Paz, Enterprise Information Security Officer/Data Privacy Officer, Bank of the Philippine Islands
Appropriately paranoid enough “I get the psyche of the opponent,” says Jonathan John “Jon” Paz, information security officer of the third-largest bank in the Philippines. “I understand the thrill that…
Christopher Porter, CISO, Fannie Mae
An excellent place Some people get to where they are by treading a neat, straight, and predetermined path, but not Fannie Mae CISO Chris Porter. After training in pre-medicine and…
Dr. Amirudin Bin Abdul Wahab, CEO, CyberSecurity Malaysia
Talking from his office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s cybersecurity chief Amirudin bin Abdul Wahab is upbeat about the state of his country’s cybersecurity preparedness. He has a lot to be…
Berin Lautenbach, CISO for Asia-Pacific, Telstra
Lucking out “I wish I could tell you I planned it all, and that this was all thought through,” says Berin Lautenbach of his path from the start of his…