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Spirion Announces Strategic Advisory Board of Top CISOs and Privacy ExpertsSpirion, the leading provider of sensitive data risk reduction solutions, today announced the formation of its Strategic Advisory Board. The board will provide valuable expertise from several top security and privacy leaders to guide Spirion in its mission to discover, categorize and secure sensitive data across the enterprise. Members include security experts from top industry verticals, including healthcare organizations Surescripts, the University of South Carolina and The CSO Advisors, Inc. The team of experts will collaborate on Spirion's strategic planning, business, product, corporate development and partnering initiatives. "High-growth security companies recognize that outside perspectives are of great benefit not only to their product evolution but also to their customer acquisition strategy," said Paul Calatayud, chairman of the Spirion Strategic Advisory Board and chief information security officer at Surescripts. "Spirion has taken data loss prevention - an age-old, complex security problem that plagues every organization and vertical - and made the process of discovering, understanding and protecting each piece of sensitive data within an organization a very simple, black-and-white process that is truly second to none." Spirion's Strategic Advisory Board members include: Paul Calatayud, chairman of the Spirion Strategic Advisory Board and chief information security officer at Surescripts - Calatayud is an information security and risk management executive with 15 years of experience ranging from Fortune 20 to start-up organizations across retail, healthcare, defense, military, medical device, cloud/SAAS and banking. He has leadership and SME experience managing compliance and regulation programs: FISMA, HIPAA, SOX, PCI (News - Alert)-DSS, SOC, ISO 27001. James Perry, chief information security officer at the University of South Carolina - Perry,an industry veteran of more than 20 years, serves as the CISO for the University of South Carolina where he is responsible for the university's information security and incident response programs. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the education sector and served in a similar capacity for the University of Tennessee. In addition to his leadership experience, Perry a strong background in HIPAA and PCI Compliance, security program maturity assessments, security penetration testing as well as security risk and vulnerability assessments. Rick Orloff, Chief Security Officer, The CSO Advisors, Inc.- Orloff has developed and lead critical security programs at one of the largest Fortune 5 companies in the world, Apple (News - Alert) Inc., and served as the CISO at eBay Inc. Currently, he is the Chief Security Officer at The CSO Advisors, Inc. and is a member of several advisory boards where he reviews and contributes to corporate strategies, product roadmaps and market opportunities. Orloff is passionate about building security capabilities that focus on solutions delivering meaningful and actionable results. "This group of security and privacy gurus will undoubtedly shape Spirion's new direction, as we will benefit from their dynamic, collective knowledge of the rapidly-changing security landscape," said Dr. Jo Webber, CEO of Spirion. "We look forward to working alongside our Strategic Advisory Board as Spirion continues to identify innovative ways to solve data sprawl and the most complicated, sensitive, data-security concerns across vertical industries." Additional Information:
About Spirion Spirion, headquartered in New York City, is the leading provider of sensitive data risk reduction solutions. The company's Data Platform accurately finds all sensitive data, anywhere, anytime and in any format on endpoints, servers, fileshares, databases and in the cloud with practically zero false positives. The software eliminates and prevents sensitive data sprawl by reducing the sensitive data footprint by 99 percent or more and operationalizes data protection policies and controls to meet a broad range of compliance requirements from PCI to PII to HIPAA and beyond. Spirion has thousands of customers among leading firms in the healthcare, public sector, retail, education, financial services, energy, industrial, and entertainment markets. For more information, visit the company at www.spirion.com. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160823005406/en/ |
