CAREER OUTLOOK
Georgia Institute of Technology
James S. Logan Manager of Quality Assurance
B.S.—Management and Computer Science Option, University of Massachussetts at Lowell
M.B.A., Rivier College
Ph.D.—Computer Information Systems and Information Science, Nova Southeastern University
James Logan understands the critical links between aca- demia, commerce and local communities and helps to protect them. The Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), ranked among the top 10 in research expenditures among universi- ties without a medical school, is a powerhouse in scientific and tech exploration and education. Each year, GT pumps about $2.15 billion into the metro Atlanta economy, which at- tracts accolades, and web thieves. Last year, Tech published Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2012. It detailed “advanced and large-scale botnet attacks, mobile application exploits, and manipulation of online information,” as the intellectual and personal property threats GT faces. In response, Logan’s team directs quality assurance and development for web- based issues, errors, test cases, and provides similar support to departments, both internal and external to the Office of In- formation Technology. He has also worked with GT’s director of Homeland Security- Emergency Preparedness and Office of Information Security. Logan, who served previously at Alltel, MITRE, and Wang Labs, is a member of the Internet Society and the Information Systems Security Association.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. It also uses evolving defenses to halt invasions of its electronic health records and customer infor- mation. HCSC encrypts portable storage devices including thumb drives to protect information, uses enterprise forensics to perform investigations and deploys an in-house team to perform proactive risk assessments on programs. Among the security applications that HCSC uses Coleman cites ArcSight for event monitoring, Checkpoint for disk and portable device encryption and Symantec for anti-virus. He advises students interested in IT security that they must understand how busi- ness works to connect its needs to technical essentials. While currently hooked on an electronic game called “Words with Friends,” Coleman says “I perform the same cyber discipline at home as I do at work. I never take anything for granted.”
Leviathan Security Group
Andre Mintz Senior Vice President Chief Security Strategist
Health Care Service Corporation
Wheeler Coleman Vice President and Chief Technology Officer B.S.—Computer Science, Northern Illinois University
M.B.A., University of Notre Dame
Andre Mintz knows that many organizations are com- placent about IT security. They meet legal and regulatory security compliance rules, but do not improve their actual risk posture, and use present breaches to predict future ones. This is a reactionary approach that means a security disaster must occur before business responds. Instead, Mintz says organiza- tions must answer prescient questions when assessing risk management strategies. What are the customer expectations and/or industry standards? What are the legal and regulatory requirements involved? What is an organization’s self-defined desired risk posture?
In 1983, Wheeler Coleman’s first job at Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) was writing code. Now he works with others to implement cyber defense at the country’s fourth largest health insurance company and the largest customer- owned health insurer. HCSC employs 16,000 people and provides coverage to more than 13 million members through
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Mintz, a former police officer, places security aware- ness training atop his corporate to do list, embraces full disk encryption to address the “lost laptop” problems and advo- cates network frisk technology to deter unauthorized and/ or compromised devices and entities. As a cyber evangelist, he supports education events with an IT focus, especially if geared toward black students. Previously, at Microsoft he built the company’s Chief Security Officer Councils and sought to engage black CSO/CISO’s. At Seattle’s Leviathan, an information security consulting and training firm, Mintz stays abreast of IT security news through CSO Online and podcasts. When not working, he is known as an accomplished Mambo dancer and teacher.
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