Apr 09 2007 15 mins 5
· The TJX data breach - these kinds of problems are not going away
· What's important about getting back to basics of information security
· Customers' trust in the financial institutions and online banking
· Handling the expectations between regulatory bodies and financial institutions
· What hasn't reared its full and ugly head yet - botnets.
Rhonda has more than 25 years of IT industry experience, and travels the globe consulting for Fortune-ranked business enterprises, governments, industry associations and risk management solution companies. Rhonda serves as an Adjunct Distinguished Senior Fellow with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, helping CyLab to continue to pursue an aggressive research and development agenda that integrates technology, policy and management by bringing together security professionals, researchers and policymakers.
Prior to founding MacLean Risk Partners, she was leader of Bank of America's Corporate Global Information Security Group. For 10 years Rhonda was responsible for the Bank's security policies; information risk management; security and risk technology implementations; cyber investigations; computer forensics; and general information risk management awareness for the company's leadership, associate base, and outside suppliers. Immediately before joining Bank of America in 1996, she was responsible for information security at The Boeing Company, managing its proprietary and government programs.
Rhonda was appointed in 2002 by the U.S. Treasury Financial Services Sector Coordinator where she founded and served as the first chairperson of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. In addition to serving as chairperson emeritus of the Council, she sits on the Global Council of CSOs-composed of computer security thought leaders from the public, private, and academic sectors. The Executive Women's Forum in 2003 named her one of five "Women of Vision" shaping the information security industry; she has twice been named one of the 50 most powerful people in computer networking by Network World.
