The ISE® Northeast Executive Forum and Awards will be held on October 4, 2012 at the Westin Times Square in New York City, NY. The ISE® Northeast Award recognizes the information security executives and their teams who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in risk management, data asset protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and network security.

The ISE® Northeast Awards are held in conjunction with a one day Executive Forum which includes keynote speakers, interactive roundtables moderated by the CISOs and VPs of participating companies, and hot topic panel discussions. The one day program offers the opportunity to meet with peers and leading IT executives from across the region to discuss and share insights into today's issues and solutions.

Nominations:  May 21 - July 13, 2012
People's Choice Award Voting:  July 24 - August 24, 2012

ISE® northeast Executive Award Winner 2011

Mark Connelly Chief Information Security Officer ITT Biography >

ISE® northeast Project Award Winner 2011

Project Name:	E3™ End-to-End Encryption
Executive Sponsor:	John South, Chief Security Officer
Project Team:	Sarah McCrary, Larry Godfrey, Paul Minutillo, Dustin Francis
Description:	E3™ end-to-end encryption is designed to combat the growing problem of credit/debit card fraud by protecting cardholder data during the payment transaction lifecycle, from the moment of card swipe to and through the processing system. E3 provides the strongest degree of security available — with no extra costs — safeguarding various stakeholders in the payments ecosystem, including consumers, business owners, banks and financial institutions. E3 also affords merchants added breach protection with the E3Warranty.

ISE® northeast People's Choice Award winner 2011

Jeffrey Lolley Director of Information Security Hogan Lovells US LLP Biography >

ISE® northeast Executive Award Finalists 2011

James Beeson Chief Information Security Officer GE Capital Biography >

Jeffrey Lolley Director of Information Security Hogan Lovells US LLP Biography >

ISE® northeast Project Award Finalists 2011

Project Name:	Highly Privileged Access Monitoring and Control for Windows Servers
Executive Sponsor:	Mike Parrella, Senior Team Leader, Information Security
Description:	The Highly Privileged Access Monitoring and Control project was undertaken to prepare GE Capital for operating under stricter regulatory standards imposed by the federal government through the Dodd-Frank Act. The project involved establishing an operational definition of file transmission and implementing technology to prohibit the egress of sensitive information while enabling such data to flow freely within the organization from secure source to secure destination without impeding business processes. The initiative leverages the Verdasys Digital Guardian Enterprise Information Protection platform as the cornerstone of a transparent and user-aware solution that provides monitoring, identification, control and blocking capabilities to ensure that administrators cannot mishandle sensitive and confidential HPA information residing on mission-critical Windows servers.
Project Name:	Advanced SIEM for VA OI&T Region 1
Executive Sponsor:	Andrew Peterson, Division Chief, Security Management Division
Project Team:	Kenneth Crandell, Vincent Bui, Jeremy Phillips, Sherry L Wilson, Kristofer E. Phillips, Michelle Yu
Description:	The Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) is entrusted to manage private data for millions of Veterans around the world. The team was under a great deal of pressure: first, to comply with security requirements mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Federal Information SecurityManagement Act (FISMA); and to manage the data across a disparate set of offices and systems. In order to respond to audits more effectively and reduce the risk of data leaks, the OI&T Region 1 team consolidated their Security Information and Event Management systems to a single, centrally-managed solution.