Modern CISO Network: Board Book

Cara has over 20+ years’ experience leading international teams in IT cyber security, enterprise risk and compliance programs for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Lockheed Martin, Symantec, and AOL. She was instrumental in building a cyber risk and vulnerability assessment program in support of our nation’s mission critical, number portability system at Neustar. In addition, Cara has implemented global business resiliency structures that include crisis management response capabilities that effectively mitigated cyber threats within agreed service levels. Cara became an executive sponsor for the creation of a customer advocacy program that included third-party security risk assessments and sales enablement at Symantec. This resulted in large customer wins of over 160 engagements worth over $200M at Symantec and over $67M in one quarter at Digital Realty Trust. She presently owns her own security consulting practice and assists her clients with building security and data governance strategies that protect corporate assets while meeting regulatory compliance as well as their strategic goals. She is the Chief Information Security Officer at MVB Bank and oversees the Information Security Program including Fintech Compliance, Third Party Risk Management, Business Continuity and Incident Response functions. She is an expert in PCI, ISO 27001, CCPA, SOX, SOC and NIST frameworks. Cara holds a B.S. from Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA. Her security certifications include CISM, CISA and CRISC.