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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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David Gee, Head of Cybersecurity – Asia Pacific, HSBC
When he gets some quiet time away from his job as head of cybersecurity for Asia Pacific at banking giant HSBC, David Gee does yoga. “Yoga is a metaphor for…
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Rebecca Wynn, Head of Information Security (Senior Director), Matrix Medical Network
Rebecca Wynn has always had an affinity for education. She breezed through high school in two years and started college early, heading to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She initially…
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Patrick Wilson, CISO, Contra Costa County
These days it’s not uncommon for four-year-olds to tinker with computers, but in the 1970s, when Contra Costa County CISO Patrick Wilson was a four-year-old, access to a computer was…
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Mohammed Noordin Yusuff Marican, CISO, NTUC Link
Mohammed Noordin Yusuff Marican was a typical young boy in Singapore in the 1980s. He was always out playing football and hanging out with his friends. “I was never home.”…
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