Travis Howe Email & Phone Number

Hill City, Sd, Us

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Us

As the Chief Information Security Officer at Own, a leading SaaS Data Protection Company, Travis has been instrumental in advancing the security and compliance frameworks, driving growth and robust protection strategies. Key accomplishments include:■ Enhancement of Security and Compliance Program: Initially joined as an individual contributor and successfully scaled the team by hiring and mentoring over a dozen members. Focused on global market expansion while maintaining a balanced approach to risk tolerance and implementing new compliance and security programs.■ Enterprise Security Program Leadership: Established a comprehensive Enterprise Security Program, achieving a remarkable reduction in vulnerabilities and spoofing attempts by 10x, established threat intelligence programs, and advanced email and domain security practices, fortifying our company's digital assets against emerging threats.■ Strategic Sales and Security Alignment: Championed the integration of security enablement practices with strategic sales initiatives, leading to significant market penetration and establishing our company as a trusted leader in SaaS data protection.■ Compliance Program Development: Spearheaded establishing key compliance programs, including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, QMS AUP, SOC, France HDS, HIPAA, and FedRAMP, ensuring adherence to rigorous standards and enhancing our market competitiveness.■ KPI Development and Implementation: Cultivated core Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to accurately gauge and continuously elevate the success of our security programs, aligning them with business objectives and operational efficiency.■ Cyber Insurance Liaison: Acted as the primary technical contact for cyber insurance, ensuring our strategies align with industry best practices and insurance requirements.Travis has been committed to developing a resilient security posture that not only protects our clients' data but also supports our company's ambitious growth objectives.

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Litify is a start-up that provides SaaS-based technology to automate and optimize end to end business activities for law firms. Travis was responsible for the kick-off of Litify’s security, privacy, and compliance program. Performed gap analysis and partnered with applicable internal teams to establish a framework and outline for SSAE-16 SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance. Performed hands-on activities and the initial individual contributor within the department; application and web assessments, policy design, AWS architecture, and standards guidance.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Travis was responsible for developing and implementing an information security program, which included procedures and policies designed to protect enterprise communications, systems, and assets from both internal and external threats as well as compliance with client security and privacy requirements. He was accountable for the results of key security programs such as vulnerability management, disaster recovery, product development lifecycle security, and other strategic security needs; in that capacity, he managed a team and consults/interacts with a variety of different constituents outside the department.He served as the overall technical point of contact to architect new solutions, performed ongoing security reviews, and managed security tools across the enterprise. He developed, implemented and administered technical security standards, as well as a suite of security services and tools to address and mitigate security risk.He provided clear customer communications and outreach on the security/privacy posture, policies and overall stance in the protection of sensitive personal data for multiple Fortune 50 and 500 organizations. He provided compliance and privacy alignment and project management of the strategic verticals targeted for sales growth and leads overall efforts in obtaining and maintaining various compliance initiatives, not limited to; SSAE 16 SOC2, HIPAA/HITRUST, and CSA. Some of his milestones include: ■ Actively engaged in following global privacy law to ensure company services are in front of ever-changing regulations and removing the friction of sales. Accelerated EU customer adoption by rapidly developing and partnering with business units to meet Privacy Shield and GDPR. ■ Reduced sales cycle on average of 25% by providing extensive “selling with security” training to sales staff. ■ Received Product launch awards for the successful launch of “Conga Contracts for Salesforce” and “Conga Esignature” salesforce.com applications.

Broomfield, Co, Us

At Conga, Travis served as the single point of contact for all security matters, including Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Cyber Security, Application Security, Identity and Access Management, Security Operations Management, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. He also functioned as an Information Security subject matter expert including applicable standards, rules, regulations, and best practices.He led the development and implementation of a security program that leveraged collaborations and company-wide resources, facilitates information security governance, advises senior leadership on security direction and resource investments also designing appropriate policies to manage information security risk. Some of his milestones include:■ Reduced overall risk level by 75% within the first 12 months. Designed overall cloud-based systems leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). Maximized next-generation technologies to perform vulnerability management, IPS, firewall and anti-malware in a highly scalable and cost-effective manner. ■ Produced EU DPA contractual clauses within three weeks of the dismissal of Safe Harbor, capturing several clients who were looking at other solutions that could not meet expectations. Negotiated security and privacy components of contracts with more than $75,000,000 ARR. ■ Reduced annual expenditures over $150,000 by introducing global VoIP systems, standardization, and consolidation of technology infrastructure and services relating to the operations and management of global staff technologies.

Broomfield, Co, Us

He was responsible for directing internal and customer-facing security, privacy and compliance programs, policies, and technologies. Assist in organizations vetting our security posture and negotiate appropriate and reasonable contract terms. Train team members to ensure the best possible project results, while also managing company security activities in the SaaS environment. Some of his milestones include:■ Designed overall cloud-based systems leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS). Maximized next-generation technologies to perform vulnerability management, IPS, firewall and anti-malware in a highly scalable and cost-effective manner. ■ Organized teams to build policy and procedures to pass Conga first SOC 2 audit successfully.■ Actively Performed threat intelligence on organizational technologies and operations. Utilize the latest tools to identify system vulnerabilities from the network through the application layers. Manage ongoing security awareness program, including live phishing attack tests.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

In his capacity as Lead Security Architect, Travis was a critical member of the Security Team working for the IT Security & Compliance. He managed a portfolio of projects and initiatives as part of the IT Security program, from initiation through delivery. He directed dual physical and logical security for a data center and colocation service, provider. He designed and drove the implementation of internal and customer-facing security solutions and directed the firm’s strategic direction toward an overall security posture, product development, and compliance. He designed, communicated, and implemented an operational plan for delivering the program, and monitored progress and performance against it. He ensured that corporate security is capable of supporting the core management business model of improving efficiencies and cost savings and giving superb customer service. He was responsible for assisting with IT governance, and compliance-related issues, including PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and privacy regulations and also was instrumental in collaborating with security and compliance direction to maintain policies and procedures to meet customer requirements. He effectively reacted to customer requests, industry trends, regulatory requirements, and corporate objectives to ensure ViaWest remains a trusted advisor to customers.Some of his milestones include: ■ Designed and implemented an updated architecture to save 30% of annual spend and new investments relating to national data center access control and CCTV solutions. Became the go-to expert on the topic in less than six months with no historical experience. ■ Designed and implemented DDoS mitigation techniques to reduce downtime and customer impact and saving customers hundreds of thousands of downtime costs on a monthly basis. ■ Deployed IP based physical security systems to a dozen data centers to leverage IP protocol vs. traditional analog systems to control and monitor doors, cameras, and other sensors.

Longmont, Colorado, Us

In this role, Travis was responsible for managing security organization and improving cross-departmental collaboration and company outreach to design Next Generation 911 services and infrastructure across U.S. and Canada. He built sound business relationships to enable strong understanding and close alignment with business needs, direction, and risk appetite. He also advised and collaborated on the development of security monitoring and mitigation tools and regulatory compliance practices.He was responsible for overseeing the maintenance and enhancement of information security policies and procedures, lead security risk assessment efforts, and drive information security awareness and training programs. He created, managed, and delivered effective information security awareness training to Intrado, Inc. and ensured that training addressed key risk areas, offered insight into staff obligations under policies, and reflected current threats.Some of his milestones include:■Ensured timely and secure delivery of 911 services to the Vancouver area for the 2010 Olympics.■Saved >$10M in the project and operational expenses while protecting the nation’s 911 infrastructure.

Led security consulting practice in 12+ countries, partnering with executive management to actively identify opportunities to improve and expand. Developed new accounts through existing relationships, personal lead generation, and company-generated leads. Focused on global security posturing, including strategy, customer relations, markets assessment, and risk/incident management. Addressed compliance (SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI/CISP, Etc), vulnerability assessments/management, pen testing, and gap analysis.■ Developed target areas: financial services, healthcare, technology, and retail.■ Built cost-effective plans for organizations to effectively address security program, compliance and audit needs. ■ Hands-on lead for complex audits, security testing and in designing overall security solutions and programs.■ One of 3 executives of the company - assisted in the acquisition by Trustwave.

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Overall responsible for the Cyber Security for the Western 1/3rd of the US Power Grid. (hydroelectric based)■ He was awarded for providing extensive company-wide leadership and cross-departmental strategies to secure the only DOE network not compromised by penetration professionals hired by the DOE.■ Designed Developed security programs to align with NIST, FISMA and other Federal regulations.■ Provided leadership and guidance to geographically dispersed team members and management of security efforts and planning.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Aggressively developed and implement methods for management and control of access to 360Networks Information Technology assets and proprietary company information. Provide in-depth technical assistance and guidance relating to the design and implementation of security, controls and disaster recovery/fail over for networks, distributed systems, telephony and operation system platforms.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for engineering, prototyping, selecting equipment/materials, installing, configuring, integrating, testing, and activating redundant secure LAN/WAN communication systems hardware/software for the United States Space Program worldwide.

Washington, Dc, Us

Lead and mentored a team of 6 personnel to proactively perform operations, troubleshooting and reporting on secure global communication and messaging systems. Responsible for 100% up time of global communications systems and unprecedented timely delivery of Top Secret communications to the President of the United States, FBI, CIA, NSA and supporting staff.

Ba Mgmt, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management

Cryptography

Military Police Acadamy

Cryptologic Communications

Counter Terrorism Certification - Department Of Defense (Dod)

Ultimate Hacking Course - Foundstone Corporation

Counter Intelligence Certificate - Department Of Energy (Doe)

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