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TAAK IT Security, LLC provides Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) as a service consulting for small to medium-sized companies that cannot afford to hire a full-time CISO, leveraging the experiences gained from leading an IT Security team and a member of a global IT Leadership team, at a Fortune 500 company. The goal of any security program should be to build sustainable processes that balance the need to protect vs. the need to run the business at an acceptable level of risk.• Accomplishments for clients include the development and implementation of IT policies and standards, internal risk assessments, a vendor IT risk assessment program, incident response plans, a security awareness program, creation of an IT Security Governance Committee, tabletop exercises, long-term strategic IT Security plans, and guidance on numerous IT security technology improvements.

Akron, Oh, Us

• As the head of IT Secuirty, responsible for leading the development of the company’s global IT Security strategy and teams of security specialists to implement it. Duties required a high level of interaction with other members of IT Leadership, Physical Security, HR, Legal, Internal Audit, Compliance & Ethics, Business Continuity, government agencies, and various external IT security associations. • Major accomplishments included the implementation of a best-in-class identity and access management solution, introduction of IT Risk assessments, implementation of a big data SIEM, IDS, incident response capability, creation of digital investigative capabilities, vendor risk assessments, and other core IT Risk & Security functions required for IT security to be effective in the 21st century. As a result of these and other accomplishments, Goodyear significantly raised the maturity of the IT security program to be on par with manufacturing sector organizations per PwC assessments.

Akron, Oh, Us

Held various positions in application development, consulting and infrastructure.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Certificate, Computer Science