Run Your Information Security Program Like A Business - Insights from World’s First CISO – Steve Katz

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Being an information security officer at a financial institution isn’t an easy job, but imagine being the first Chief Information Security Officer at your institution, and the first one, period. Steve Katz shared his thoughts on information security from his unique perspective of being just that—the first CISO of a major financial institution. What many of us take for granted in our programs was hewn out of thin air by Steve since the mid 1980s.

Steve Katz is a true luminary among the information security community. Known as the world’s first chief information security officer, Katz is widely regarded as one of the discipline’s thought leaders. In addition to his role since 1985 as a senior security executive for J.P. Morgan, Citibank/Citigroup and most recently Merrill Lynch, he has been a force at both industry and government levels in raising the visibility and shaping the direction of the security industry.

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