In this course, attendees will be introduced to the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) and strategies to effectively leverage this resource for the betterment of an organization. The focus will be placed on the relationships between CPAs and CISOs and ways to communicate and appreciate the commonalities between the two roles as a means of strengthening the cyber security practices required by organizations today. Finally, the participant will be presented with considerations for engaging fractional CISOs as a means of helping to manage the ever-growing cost burdens associated with procuring, implementing, and sustaining security programs necessary to manage the cyber risks businesses face in 2022.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the role of a CISO and how they can best contribute to attaining organizational strategies
- Identify key strategies for CISOs to have successful interactions with executives and the board
- Recognize cyber risk management and CPA-CISO relationship that is impacting this practice
- Identify the emergence and the financially effective use of "fractional" CISOs for businesses
- Give examples of how to build and leverage strong CPA-CISO relationships
Dara Albright
DWealth Education
Co-founder of DWealth Education
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Dara Albright is a fintech pundit with distinct expertise in digital and decentralized finance. She possesses a distinguished 32-year career in financial services encompassing IPO execution, investment banking, trading, corporate communications, financial conference production as well as institutional and retail sales. She is the host of the Decent Millionaire podcast, an episodic podcast series that helps people discover the unprecedented wealth creating potential of decentralization, web3 & Participate2Earn Economics, and is the co-founder of DWealth Education, a learn-2-earn EdTech platform designed to bridge digital asset literacy gaps in corporate, government and academic sectors. Albright serves on multiple boards including Worthy Financial, a scaling fintech enterprise and ICAN (Investor Choice Advocates Network), a nonprofit public interest litigation organization serving as a legal advocate and voice for small investors and entrepreneurs
Greg Reitz
CISOciety
Co-Founder
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Greg Reitz is one of the founders of CISOciety, a firm that delivers fractional CISO services for businesses. CISOciety's unique approach to the market entails leveraging proprietary matching algorithms that pair former CISOs with customers based on key relationship drivers and business needs. As a principal in the firm, Greg brings over 35 years of strategic technology and cyber security experiences, with competencies developed and matured within multiple industry verticals for businesses with both domestic and global locations. He has extensive experience working with all levels of leadership and with individual contributors to develop and execute technology and security-driven business strategies that create real economic value for organizations. From a security framework perspective, Greg has practical experience with risk profiles, assessments, remediation actions, and executive management responsibilities associated with the ISO, NIST, CMMC, and SOX frameworks across the following verticals: Electrical Utility, Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Higher Education, K-12 Education, and Automotive.
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