On this episode of Tech Trek, Lisa Hall, Chief Information Security Officer, talks about her experiences building a security program at the genetic testing company. The program covers infrastructure security, application security, product security, governance, risk, and compliance. Lisa discusses the challenges and strategies in building and maintaining a security program in a constantly evolving landscape.

Highlights

[00:02:29] Building security strategies.

[00:03:42] Adapting to different company cultures.

[00:07:16] Engineering first organizations.

[00:11:16] Finding security champions.

[00:14:30] Celebrating quick wins.

[00:17:25] Finding the right leadership voice.

[00:20:49] Cybersecurity and Business Impact.

[00:23:55] Productivity and motivation.

[00:27:47] Call-to-action for engagement.

With over 16 years of experience in information security, Lisa Hall has built security programs from the ground up and optimized existing security and compliance initiatives at scale. She focuses on building holistic security strategies and comprehensive information security management programs- ensuring products and business systems are developed with security in mind.

Lisa has experience building and growing teams, leading companies through IPO, acquisitions & mergers, and leading Application/Product Security, Infrastructure Security, and Compliance programs (SOX, SOC2, ISO 27001, FISMA, FedRAMP, & HITRUST). She believes security should make it easy to do the right thing. Lisa has previously held Information Security roles at PagerDuty, Twilio, and EY.

Lisa is a Venture Advisor at YL Ventures and an Advisory Board Member for Day of Shecurity. She is also a co-author in "Reinventing Cybersecurity"- A JupiterOne book authored by female and non-binary security practitioners.

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