Lockheed Martin
Diane S. Williams Information Assurance Engineer, Senior Staff B.S.—Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Diane Williams says that Lockheed Martin, an advanced technology company, prepares for threats by building perim- eter defenses and integrating security into all internal and external products and services. In more than 15 years as an information security professional, she has applied her skills to security engineering, architecture, and incident handling and has proven success at partnering with technologists, man- agement, and executives to reduce information security risk. Williams provides technical leadership to secure enterprise- wide HR systems, manages and conducts security assessment activity related to technical privacy compliance. Williams suggests that security students read industry publications: ISSA journals, SANS newsletters and bulletins, and listen to free webinars from companies like Gartner and ISC2. She also urges attending the SecureWorld, DoD Cyber Crime, and Blackhat conferences, or go to their websites and download the presentations. Williams doesn’t believe that cloud computing is inherently less secure. However, she says one must maintain the same fundamental data protection methodologies in the cloud as in one’s physical infrastructure. Looking for next generation techs, Williams devotes time to non-profits that work with historically under-represented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
200 beds. John Sapp, 45, is responsible for the development of the information security strategy for McKesson’s IT soft- ware products and drives innovation in the healthcare market through the use of information security technology. Those are critical steps as clinicians depend on McKesson software to provide quality healthcare and patient safety, and to safeguard the security and privacy of medical records. Intruders in those areas, says Sapp, are the single most important cyber security threat that McKesson and its sector face. As a result, Sapp hopes that all Historically Black College and Universities will include IT security as a specialty in their Computer Science programs. He says most tech-oriented black students pursue engineering, and are unaware of cyber security as a discipline with “the most promising future.” As the healthcare and utili- ties industries transform, they must manage cyber security and need trained hires in that art.
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Veda Sims Chief Information Security Officer
B.S.—Information Systems Management, University of Maryland University College M.S.—Information Assurance, Norwich University
Few Americans have heard of the Recovery Accountabil- McKesson
John B. Sapp, Jr. Senior Director, Information Security Product Management & Innovation
Holistic Information Security Practitioner (HISP)
San Francisco’s McKesson is the nation’s largest phar- maceutical distributor, and its healthcare IT business line (software and hardware technology), which is installed in more than 75% of the nation’s hospitals that have more than
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ity and Transparency Board (RATB). Its website, Recovery. gov, was created under the American Recovery and Reinvest- ment Act of 2009, to provide accountability and to show how Recovery funds are spent by recipients of contracts, grants, and loans, and the distribution of Recovery entitlements and tax benefits. It is the responsibility of the site’s CISO Veda Sims, 36, to mitigate any IT security problems via continuous monitoring, innovative security technologies, security aware- ness and the use of personnel to audit and manage the agency infrastructure. Besides her RATB role, she is the deputy CIO, Chief Privacy Officer and a member of the Federal Small Agency CISO Advisory Council. Prior to RATB, she worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, AT&T Government Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation and Northrop Grumman. Sims’ favorite cyber security apps are Proofpoint, a security-as-service vendor for corporations and Overlook Fing an Android-based network discovery tool for mobile device security that she uses for her iPhone iOS5 platform. In 2010, she earned a certificate in Professional Studies in Public Health Informatics from the University of Maryland.
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