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Agile Security: Balancing Security with the Need for Agility written by Jeff Lowder
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.
PCI DSS Position on Patching May Be Unjustified
June 27, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Verizon Business recently posted an excellent article on their blog about security patching. As someone who just read The New School of Information Security (an important book that all information security professionals should read), I thought it was refreshing to see someone take an…
Agility and Risk Compensation: Exploring the Connection
June 9, 2008 – 6:00 am
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In my previous and inaugural column, I introduced the concept of a tradeoff between information security and agility, where agility was defined as “the capability to change with managed cost and speed.” Information security doesn’t necessarily have to be at odds with agility, but…
Fitting the CIA Triad in a Business Context: The Concept of Agile Security
May 20, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Last year, Harvard Business School Press published a very interesting book entitled IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage by George Westerman and Richard Hunter. Westerman is a Research Scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of…
