Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing
information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to
organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades.
Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and
privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded
the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT
Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers,
and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy
experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both
2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations,
and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance
business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books,
dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for
the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on
her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers,
Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training
Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter
(Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service
Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to
HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the
leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her
IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at:
rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.