Paul Lesov

Vice President, Information Security Architecture Lead, Wells Fargo Bank

Minneapolis, MN, United States

Details

Experience: Manage a team of security architects responsible for providing security architecture solutions, vendor and product evaluations, consulting, and information security education.

Specifically,

Provide architecture design consultation and risk mitigation solutions

Educate leaders to allow them to make well informed risk vs. reward decisions

Manage the challenge of dealing with enterprise architecture processes

Engage with vendors / run or collaborate on product evaluations and bakeoffs

Manage Technology Standards Center as part of security products purchasing governance

Provide subject matter expertise for interpretation and support development of IS policy

Provide WF Audit Services with Second Line of Defense to provide fair and balanced advice

2000 : Present

Wells Fargo

Security Architect, VP Enterprise Information Security Architecture Lead

1999 : 2001

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Associate

1997 : 1999

United States Air Force

Network Engineer

Company: Wells Fargo

Spoken Language: English, Russian

About

From the very beginning of my professional career in IT I started to gravitate towards security field. First, as a network engineer for the Department of Defense, then as an IT security auditor and finally as a security architect for one of the largest national banks.

I manage a team where we have the most fun solving difficult problems with “out of the box” ideas. Business does not wait for security controls and one must be creative to steer brilliant new business ideas away from the cliff.