Vendor Security Risk Management
Atif is cyber security professional with over 15+ years working in security leadership roles to drive and deploy program vision and strategy. He has extensive experience in vendor risk management, enterprise customer trust, governance, privacy, risk compliance and GRC technology enablement.
Manager in the Information Security Organization at LinkedIn, responsible for the 3rd party data security and building security trust and transparency among enterprise customers. His prior experience includes working at Ernst & Young (EY) and Zuora.
Atif holds a master’s degree in Accounting from University of Virginia and bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from California State University, Chico. He serves in leadership advisory boards and non-profit organizations to support and advance opportunities for professionals in minority groups.
Presentation Topics:
- 3rd party vendors introduce a potential threat to organizations’ employee, customer, financial and other data types.
- As organizations rely heavily on vendors to meet their business demands, the need to build a risk management program and mitigate vendor security risk has become fundamental.
- In this talk, we will describe practices of conducting security assessment and managing risks with vendors.
- In addition, we will highlight how the vendor risk landscape is continuously changing due to industry trends such as GDPR, reliance on cloud vendors, and security data breaches.