Do you ever find yourself explaining security issues to your corporate board or your executive management? Their understanding and support is critical but many executives and board members don't have a deep security background. How can you speak their language, fill in the gaps and convey the essentials of a security issue? In this session, we will cover some key rules for "speaking security" to non-security executives and board members and then conduct a series of case studies, reporting on security incidents, requesting budget for security programs and debating security risks in products. Audience participation is a must here - attendees will have a chance to act out, observe and evaluate difference scenarios.
Sandy Carielli has over a decade of experience in the security industry, as a product manager, consultant and developer. Most recently, Ms. Carielli was a Director of Product Management at RSA, where she was responsible for the SecurID portfolio and the Data Protection product line; she has also worked on security management products and solutions. She has also held positions at @stake (where she was regular contributor to the Application Security Center of Excellence) and BBN technologies. Ms. Carielli has been a speaker at RSA Conference, NYSE Cyber Risk Board Forum, SOURCE Boston and BSides Boston. She has a Sc.B. in Mathematics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Rick has been Chief Operating Officer of CYS Investments (NYSE: CYS) since 2006. Earlier in his career, he was a Principal at Schooner Capital, where he led investments in digital assets management, including establishing portfolio company Iron Mountain’s (NYSE: IRM) digital archive business. Prior to Schooner, he was Managing Director, Asia at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) based Hong Kong, where he established the firm’s research and quantitative businesses across Southeast Asia. Prior to Thomson, Rick had been at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities capital markets group. He has a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from the Cornell Business School.