Debbie Christofferson, CISSP, CISM Helping organizations build and manage a successful security strategy based on risks and the bottom line. 15+ years international Fortune 500 management experience with Intel Corp, across the US, Europe and Greater Asia, and most recently with the Apollo Group, Inc. Certified Information Security Manager & Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Published author, columnist, and speaker. President Phoenix ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) and International ISSA Board Director.

Debbie Christofferson, CISSP, CISM Helping organizations build and manage a successful security strategy based on risks and the bottom line. 15+ years international Fortune 500 management experience with Intel Corp, across the US, Europe and Greater Asia, and most recently with the Apollo Group, Inc. Certified Information Security Manager & Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Published author, columnist, and speaker. President Phoenix ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) and International ISSA Board Director.

IT risk is greater than ever, since most business runs on IT infrastructures. Failure is not an acceptable option for business viability. Security is a major component of risk, but how much security is too much? What do executives and our boards expect regarding enterprise security risk? We’ll present the lowdown on security risk in today’s enterprise and what it means to your business and career: Core concepts of information security and risk management. Principles of risk management. Where IT and security fit within enterprise risk management. How to manage risk. What a successful security risk strategy involves. Current and future trends impact security and IT risk to your organization’s bottom line. Rising career opportunities.

Mr. Smith founded Face to Face Live in Scottsdale, Arizona in early 2006, on the idea of offering a videoconferencing solution that is powerful, reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use so that any company, anywhere and at anytime can effortlessly communicate “face to face”. In 2008, Face to Face Live partnered with LifeSize Communications and is a Tier 1 reseller of LifeSize high-definition videoconferencing systems. Face to Face Live is an incredible videoconferencing organization. We compete against major corporations like Cisco, HP, Sony, Polycom, and Tandberg. We have been fortunate in winning accounts like Burger King, PF Chang’s China Bistro, Pegasus, Sterne Agee, and FootJoy, just to name a few. We have won their business because we are all about quality and customer service. Our videoconferencing system performs at 60 frames per second – the same speed as the HD channels you watch from home. With that speed, you truly are “face-to-face”. Al is on the Board of Directors for Doulos Ministries Inc., a non-profit Christian organization that provides troubled teens with residential housing and a structured environment to grow and mature both personally and spiritually. Additionally, he also serves on the board of IsoRay, a small public medical company and recently joined Vistage, a CEO peer group. Al grew up in Detroit, Michigan and holds a BS in Business Administration from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. He has extensive experience in marketing and sales having managed a national sales force of over fifty people while at CSI Leasing, Inc., a company he co-founded. His passions in life are his faith, his family, and the game of golf.

Chad Kirkpatrick is the Arizona State Chief Information Officer and Director of the Government Information Technology Agency. As the State CIO, Mr. Kirkpatrick’s office is responsible for statewide IT strategic planning, approving technology projects, and monitoring project implementations. His leadership team develops statewide information security and privacy guidelines, provides direction to the creation of the health information exchange, and leads the state’s rural broadband development and other strategic projects. Prior to becoming the State CIO, Mr. Kirkpatrick was Vice President of Technology for the Wells Fargo Home Equity Group. In that role, Mr. Kirkpatrick created the MIS Roadmap to assess the technology environment, identify goals and develop an action plan to align technology and business needs. He also led application development and data warehousing initiatives, including fully automating the business process for regulatory compliance testing, and developing an innovative data analysis program to proactively identify potential regulatory issues, tracking corrective action and delivering critical information to the compliance team. Director Kirkpatrick received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from George Washington University in Washington, DC and his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from The American University.

With the fiscal landscape changing at a rapid pace across the state of Arizona, State CIO and Director of the Government Information Technology Agency, Chad Kirkpatrick is building a plan to build a strong force of reliable and secure IT policies to protect information and grow capabilities across state agencies. Director Kirkpatrick will discuss his team’s ongoing work to develop strategies that cut waste and save on costs, as he elaborates on the highlights of the FY 11 Statewide Strategic IT plan and what it means for Arizona’s future.

Ed’s career spans over 25 years in several infrastructure sectors including manufacturing, federal government and energy. He has held the positions of Risk Analyst, Project Manager, Security Operations Supervisor and Manager of Business Continuity & Emergency Management. Ed’s responsibilities have included coordinating emergency preparedness through writing contingency plans, conducting training and drills, maintaining the operational readiness of corporate emergency operations centers, and serving as a public-private partnership liaison. He served in the State of Arizona Emergency Operations Center during Top Officials (TOPOFF) National Exercise in October 2007 and has testified to a state Joint Senate and House of Representatives committee. Ed has a graduate degree in Engineering and holds the designations of Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) and Certified in Homeland Security (CHS-III). He has volunteered with the American Red Cross and the Phoenix CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). He is currently the Past President of the Central Arizona Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners and serves on the Arizona Central Region Citizen Corps Council. Ed has launched his business, Coaching For Resiliency LLC, and has published a book titled “Self Defense Against Disasters – Urban Survival Planning for Families and Individuals.” He is passionate about educating individuals and families in emergency preparedness and writes and speaks on that topic.

You may expect your employees to travel to your backup site ASAP, be gone for days, and leave their families behind. Yet their personal lives may be affected by the same disaster affecting the business. You may train on exercising your business recovery plans, but what preparations have your employee’s families taken? What training have they received? What have you given your employees in return for the focus under high pressure you desire during such emergencies? Even under normal business conditions, chances are your employees will face an emergency or disaster during their life. Most are vastly unprepared for that inevitability, and incredibly vulnerable to devastation. The call to action in this presentation is to help employees and their families with scaled-down but similar considerations implemented in the workplace, resource guides, explanations of emergency procedures and checklists for supplies and other tools for crisis preparedness.