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Ken Morris

Senior Director II, Information and Cyber Security, GuideWell / Florida Blue, Certified Chief Information Security Officer
Jacksonville, FL, United States

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Experience: Information & Cyber Security Senior Director with GuideWell / Florida Blue (Blue Cross Blue Shield) with 30 years of experience in various IT/Security roles such as security, architecture, information assurance and infrastructure design. Ken has been with his current company for 20 years and directs the program protecting the confidentiality of 5M subscribers’ Protected Health Information. He is a skilled and experienced information security executive with proven expertise in developing, implementing and leading effective and efficient security compliance and risk management programs. A trusted subject matter expert, adviser, collaborator and pragmatic security risk leader. Endeavors to deliver value to the organization through innovative, strategic approaches to integrating security best practices into Healthcare operational and compliance business models. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide cyber and information security program by providing the vision, strategy and architecture to include establishing, maintaining and monitoring the policies and procedures which promote the secure and uninterrupted operation of all information technology systems. He is also responsible to identify, develop and implement information security programs to maintain processes across the health system to reduce information and information technology risks, to respond to incidents, establish appropriate standards and controls, and direct the establishment and implementation of policies and procedures.

2017 : Present

GuideWell

Senior Director, Information & Cyber Security, Certified Chief Information Security Officer

1998 :

GuideWell

Senior Director, Information and Cyber Security, Certified CISO

Information & Cyber Security Director with Florida Blue (Blue Cross Blue Shield) with 30 years of experience in various IT/Security roles such as security, architecture, information assurance and infrastructure design. Ken has been with his current company for close to 20 years and directs the program protecting the confidentiality of 5M subscribers’ Protected Health Information. He is a skilled and experienced information security executive with proven expertise in developing, implementing and leading effective and efficient security compliance and risk management programs. A trusted subject matter expert, adviser, collaborator and pragmatic security risk leader. Endeavors to deliver value to the organization through innovative, strategic approaches to integrating security best practices into Healthcare operational and compliance business models. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide cyber and information security program by providing the vision, strategy and architecture to include establishing, maintaining and monitoring the policies and procedures which promote the secure and uninterrupted operation of all information technology systems. He is also responsible to identify, develop and implement information security programs to maintain processes across the health system to reduce information and information technology risks, to respond to incidents, establish appropriate standards and controls, and direct the establishment and implementation of policies and procedures.

2015 :

Florida Blue

Director, Information & Cyber Security (Interim CISO)

Information Security Manager of Security Solutions

2014 :

Florida Blue

Information Security Manager

Principal IT Security Architect for Enterprise Security for Florida Blue (BlueCross BlueShield of Florida).

1998 : 1998

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida

Principal IT Security Architect
Company: GuideWell
Years of Experience: 38

Skills

Active Directory, Bluecoat, Business Continuity, Cisco Technologies, CISSP, Computer Security, Data Center, Data Loss Prevention, Data Loss Protection, Data Security, Disaster Recovery, DLP, Encryption, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Software, Firewalls, HIPAA, Identity Management, IDS, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information Security Management, IPS, ISO 27001, Network Architecture, Networking, Network Security, PCI DSS, Penetration Testing, PKI, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Secure Messaging, Secure Web Gateways, Security, Security Architecture Design, Security Consulting, Security Strategy, Servers, SSL Certificates, System Administration, Technical Leadership, Unix, Virtualization, VMware, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment, WAN, Windows Server, Security Architecture, Enterprise Risk

About

Cyber Security Senior Director II with GuideWell / Florida Blue (Blue Cross Blue Shield) with 35 years of experience in various IT/Security roles such as security, architecture, information assurance and infrastructure design. Ken has been with his current company for 25 years and directs the program protecting the confidentiality of 5M subscribers’ Protected Health Information. He is a skilled and experienced information security executive with proven expertise in developing, implementing and leading effective and efficient security compliance and risk management programs. A trusted subject matter expert, adviser, collaborator and pragmatic security risk leader. Endeavors to deliver value to the organization through innovative, strategic approaches to integrating security best practices into Healthcare operational and compliance business models. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide cyber and information security program by providing the vision, strategy and architecture to include establishing, maintaining and monitoring the policies and procedures which promote the secure and uninterrupted operation of all information technology systems. He is also responsible to identify, develop and implement information security programs to maintain processes across the health system to reduce information and information technology risks, to respond to incidents, establish appropriate standards and controls, and direct the establishment and implementation of policies and procedures.

Before joining his current company, Ken worked as a Senior Analyst for the US Special Operations Forces for both US Army & Air Forces architecting and deploying solutions used by combat forces in several campaigns throughout the world.

Before his role with Special Ops; Ken held many IT and Security roles as an active duty member of the US Air Force for 10 years primarily designing, deploying and operating solutions in Top Secret and Secret environments.