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Jeff Lowder, is Director of Information Security and Risk Management at Disney Interactive Media Group, a branch of The Walt Disney Company.

He is an information security executive with a passion for continuous learning and innovation in information security risk management, with an exceptionally strong background in IT governance, inductive logic, and decision theory as it relates to risk analysis and risk management. He has over 10 years of management experience and 12 years of IT experience that span Internet security, strategic planning, incident response, compliance, information systems audit, business continuity planning, and project management. His previous assignments include Sr. Security Architect / Manager, Network Security at NetZero; Director, Security and Privacy at Elemica; and Director, Network Security at the United States Air Force Academy, where he was named Information Protection Individual of the Year.

He has been published in multiple editions of the HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT (ed. Harold F. Tipton and Mikki Krause, Auerbach Publications). He is a member of the ISSA and the Society for Risk Analysis. A graduate of Seattle Pacific University, with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, Lowder also is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and has served on the boards of the Delaware Valley ISSA and the SANS Institute’s GSEC Certification Advisory Board.