Top 10 CISOs - 2023

Joshua Brown is a Chief Information Security Officer, with deep experience in designing and building information security programs to deliver efficient and effective risk management practices. My core expertise is in zero trust design, implementation of data-centric risk mitigation, raising security awareness, and aligning security strategy with business requirements.

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Adopting Technology to Increase Workplace Efficiency

By: Joshua Brown, Chief Information Security Officer, H&R Block

“As we built out and invested in our team, many of the capabilities that had been outsourced or purchased as services over time were then able to be delivered internally. Investing in our talent enabled us to deliver better and faster for the business.”

A seasoned security leader with 20+ years hands-on track record of delivering successful results in both large enterprises and resource-constrained startups. Thrive in fast paced environments. Experienced in cybersecurity leadership, strategy, security program design-build-run, security & privacy architecture, engineering, vulnerability management, pen test, incident response. Experienced in managing the compliance body of security GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, SOC2, NIST CSF, ISO 2700x. Experience in managing third party risks to support global business. Experienced in building and leading strong teams.

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Building Lean Security Program to Accelerate Business Growth

By: Bill Yue Chen, Chief Information Security Officer, Natera

“Security is an art of prioritization and decision with or without perfect information”

With over 2 decades in the cybersecurity space, Nada Noaman believes in the partnership of balancing risk with technological innovation and business needs. She’s previously served as Cybersecurity VP at AT&T/Warner Media, Deputy CISO at Warner Bros Entertainment, and Director of Cybersecurity and Risk at PwC

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A Look at Cyber Security and Machine Learning.

By: Nada Noaman, Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, The Estée Lauder Companies

“With AI capabilities being improved drastically, humans will experiment with and ultimately rely on AI in a new way. However, with automation on the rise, we need to keep up, which forces us to think more creatively and strategically about what sources of AI we rely on, what we feed it, and how we leverage it securely.”

Timothy J. Held is passionate about helping people protect their information, their finances and ultimately, their families. As Chief Information Security Officer, he is privileged to lead Information Security program at U.S. Bank, ensuring they have got the right protections in place and using its platform to educate both current and future customers on how to keep their information safe.

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Scaling Security Can Help Business Grow

By: Tim Held, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Bank

“I believe that relying on your peers as well as your team is essential. To achieve the best results, you must put your talent into practice.”

Global Information Security Officer possessing the ability to balance the need to protect the organization against the needs to run the business. Risk professional, strategist, and advisor to the business. Specialties: Information Security Strategy & Architecture, Operations, Governance, Policy, Product Security, Industrial Security, and Incident response.

At Bristol Myers Squibb, Sydney Klein is creating innovative medicines for patients who are fighting serious diseases. She is also nurturing her own team with inspiring work and challenging career options. No matter the role, each of them makes a contribution. And that makes all the difference.

Ricardo’s career has encompassed over 16 years of senior level technical, management and consultative positions in government, health care, educational, financial services and legal services. Ricardo has architected innovative and successful incident management, risk management, application security programs, data protection policies and cloud security vendor assessment and frameworks. Proven leadership, project management, mentor, negotiation, and problem-solving skills demonstrated throughout his career

Hartridge is an accomplished Cybersecurity executive and technical program manager both the public and private sectors. He has deep knowledge and experience with Cybersecurity risks, threats and policy management with a focus on Identity and Access Management. He prides himself on his ability to balance risk with business value to make informed risk-based decisions.

An executive, regulator and attorney passionate about privacy, data management, system of systems engineering and organization achievement. Immediate past Secretary of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the State of Maryland responsible for the development of the Maryland One Stop Portal, development and implementation of the Customer Experience Portfolio Office and technology intake and development process and adoption of Technology Business Management (TBM) accounting methodologies within Maryland State Government.

Stefan currently serves as CISO of CorVel (CRVL), where he oversees security and privacy policy, governance and operations. In the past, Stefan served in executive security leadership roles as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) at large and small organizations in both the private and public sector. As the CISO for the State of Oregon, Stefan defined and led transition to a new enterprise security model, building a central security organization from 5 to 60, deploying a number of highly-effective enterprise security programs, establishing security accountability through enterprise metrics and driving passage of major state security legislation.