Ken Rowe Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Serving as President of the Board for the InfraGard Springfield Members Alliance, an Illinois NFP public-private partnership with the FBI and US Businesses and individuals involved in protection and resilience of US critical infrastructures.

InfraGard Springfield Members Alliance (ISMA) is a non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership among U.S. businesses, individuals involved in the protection and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructures, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Central & Southern Illinois.

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Providing CISO, Compliance, and Systems Engineering services, including risk and vulnerability assessments and audit support.- Advise C-level executives on IT strategies, planning, and implementation approaches for small and medium size commercial corporations and financial institutions.- Developed FFIEC IT security compliance program for financial institution.- Provided security awareness training to financial institution employees.- Lead client team in development of IT controls environment to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.- Created research strategy and proposal for high assurance software development of ITAR and other export restricted systems.- Developed and presented training for new State of Illinois Web-based workforce employment system.

Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, And Springfield, Il, Us

- Function as CSO (reporting to CIO) for a 200+ person IT organization that encompasses:o 100,000 + Users (students, faculty, staff) across University Administration and all campuseso 300 + Applications on 830+ servers (including Registration, Grade Book, and Finance systems) o 370+ Databases with 330+ TB Storage and 350 + TB of Backup Media.- Develop protection strategies for protection of privacy data and export controlled items.- Coordination of IT Compliance activities, including external and internal audits.- Oversight of all PCI IT security compliance.- Development and coordination of IT Security Policies across the University.- Operation of Enterprise systems access authorization administration function.- Responsible for IT Compliance and IT Audit support for University Administration. AITS had responsibility for all the shared application services across the three campuses (Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Springfield) and IT support for University Administration, including University President's office.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Advise C-level executives on IT strategies, planning, and implementation approaches for $500M to $5B commercial and not-for-profit corporations, as well as financial and academic institutions.- Lead risk assessments and vulnerability analysis teams- Lead Sarbanes-Oxley and FFIEC IT compliance audit teams- Developed new strategy for corporate CIO Security Service offerings- Lead coordination of standard methods and tools for security service offerings across corporation

Reston, Va, Us

- Lead development team for classified software systems including turning “problem child” team into top producer in 9 months- Managed $1M+ annual portfolio in defense contracts- Established CMM and CMMi improvement efforts across Division- Established new Test and QA functions for ITAR and classified software systems- Principal researcher for DoD Software Protection Initiative Secure Software Development.- Lead security expert for $1B+ collaborative proposal effort for Network-Centric Warfare.- Development of Computer Security course and pilot offering for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (current CS461)

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Managed local site in Champaign, IL, including oversight (e.g., hiring, performance evaluations, recruiting, goal setting, monitoring) of growth from the original 8 employees to 50 in two year time span with direct management responsibility for more than 20 employees.- Managed development team for Centri Firewall product.- Managed local development team for Cisco Secure Policy Manager through multiple releases.- Managed internationally distributed (Israel, UK, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, California) team for Cisco Access Control Server product.- Attendee, Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) fall 1999 invitation-only workshop on Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (prior to major attacks in 2000).

Urbana, Illinois, Us

- Oversight responsibility of computer security for NCSA, including protection of export controlled codes, data, and system resources.- Developed proposal and was Principal Investigator of $1M+ US Air Force software-based cryptography research effort which included classified work with Boeing (an NCSA Industrial Partner) - NCSA Representative to international Forum for Incident Response and Security Team (FIRST) and the Committee on Intercollegiate Cooperation (CIC) security working group.- Advised Fortune 100 Industrial Partners on information security policies, technologies, and practices, including developing global corporate security policy and training their key security people in risk assessment for Industrial Partner.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

- Senior Computer Scientist (GS-14), Jul 1994 - Jun 1995- Visiting Lecturer, NSA Visiting Professor Program, Jul 1993 - Jun 1994- Senior Systems Security Engineering Technologist, Office of Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Systems Engineering, NSA, May 1991 - Jul 1993- Graduate Fellow, NSA, Sep 1990 - May 1991- Senior Technical Advisor, Security Assurance Technologies Division, Office of Computer Security Research and Development, Jan 1990 - Sep 1990- Chief, Secure Software Engineering Branch, Security Assurance Technologies Division, Office of Computer Security Research and Development, Apr 1988 - Dec 1989- Senior Researcher, Ada Technology Insertion Branch, Network Security Division, Office of Computer Security Research and Development, Jan 1985 - Apr 1988- Computer Scientist, NSA, Jun 1981 - Jan 1985

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Mathematics / Applied Computer Science

Mathematics / Computer Science

Engineering Physics