ISSA Central Plains Chapter
May 1st,  2020

 

Central Plains Chapter Meeting:

"CISO/CSO Challenges", Malcolm Harkins

Malcolm Harkins is the Chief Security and Trust Officer for Cymatic. He is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and business processes. Including all aspects of information risk and security, as well as security and privacy policy. Also responsible for peer outreach activities to drive improvement across the world in the understanding of cyber risks and best practices to manage and mitigate those risks. Key areas of focus include the ethics around technology risk, social responsibility, total cost of controls, and driving more industry accountability. He is also an independent board member and advisor to organizations. He is also an executive coach to CISOs and others in a wide variety of information risk roles. Previously Malcolm was the Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance Inc. In this role he reported to the CEO and was responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and business processes. He had direct organizational responsibility for information risk and security, as well as security and privacy policy. Malcolm was also previously Vice President and Chief Security and Privacy Officer (CSPO) at Intel Corporation. In that role Malcolm was responsible for managing the risk, controls, privacy, security, and other related compliance activities for all of Intel's information assets, products, and services.Before becoming Intel's first CSPO he was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) reporting into the Chief Information Officer. Malcolm received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Irvine and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California at Davis.


Malcolm will be presenting on CISO/CSO Challenges


In this talk, Malcolm will share from his experiences and with industry data the challenges/difficulties the CISO/CSO faces. He will discuss the business outcomes we need to be accountable to deliver and why it is so hard to achieve them. He will discuss how the CISO/CSO needs to become a choice architect and what that means in the context of the role today. He will discuss total cost of controls, the economics of the industry, habits, and how we need to reframe how we think about what we are doing and how we achieve better outcomes using his 9-box of controls framework.

 

 

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)® is a not-for-profit international organization of information security professionals and practitioners.  It provides education forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. We hope the ISSA will provide a chance to interface with other IT professionals and further your awareness of security practices and technologies.

 

This meeting is open to the general public with no expectations of membership.


Date:       Friday, May 1st, 2020
Location: Zoom Video Conference

               Meeting ID: 942 2662 6949 Password: 727126
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Time:     1:00 pm until 3:00 pm