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Rebecca Harness
VP, Chief Information Security Officer at Quickbase
Lake Saint Louis, MO, United States
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Experience:
2021 : Present
Quickbase
VP, Chief Information Security Officer
At SLU, I led information security for a world-class academic, clinical (SLUCare Center for Specialized Medicine), and research organization with campuses in St. Louis, MO and Madrid, Spain.
During this time, I led our global security teams through the transformation of information security from an audit-driven exercise to a mature, well-orchestrated program focused on continuous improvement and community engagement.
In less than two years, we transitioned network security, endpoint security, identity management, vulnerability management, and people-centric technologies to a cloud delivery model capable of serving the sudden shift to telecommuting, remote classrooms, and telemedicine.
We accomplished this through close partnerships with vendors and managed security service providers but, most importantly, by rapidly developing our people to support a sudden shift in organizational requirements, including remote learning, telemedicine, and a cloud-first strategy for the high-performance computing used in scientific research.
Throughout this transformation, my team also ensured the university continually demonstrated compliance with many regulatory and industry frameworks, including HIPAA, FERPA, PCI, DMCA, & GDPR.
2019 : 2021
Saint Louis University
AVP, Chief Information Security Officer
Following my success at Enterprise, I launched Pericuro LLC, the second startup of my career, to provide Security Risk Management (SRM) consulting. Serving clients nationwide, I provided cyber risk advisory services for customer-facing regulatory requirements (e.g. FedRAMP, FISMA, FINRA, and 800-171) to many organizations, identifying efficient strategies to reduce their exposure to cyber risk.
2018 : 2020
Pericuro LLC
Principal, Cyber Risk Advisor
Being promoted four times in as many years led to me managing a strategic security department of 30+ managers, engineers, and architects at one of the world’s largest multi-brand companies (Enterprise, National, and Alamo). While there, I was known for leading the transformation of information security priorities into well-orchestrated programs, leading to better management of costs while ensuring our cybersecurity technologies and partners provided a high level of measurable value.
I also led the modernization of our global, multi-brand PCI (Level 1) annual compliance assessment for multiple years, leading to a dramatic reduction in effort and expense.
2012 : 2018
Enterprise Holdings
Department Manager, Information Security Architecture & Engineering
I provided technical leadership at Savvis (later acquired by CenturyLink, now Lumen) for various global infrastructure projects such as authentication, identity, messaging, and related security technologies supporting the management of 40+ data centers worldwide.
2010 : 2012
Lumen Technologies
Architecture & Engineering Leader
Quickbase
VP, Chief Information Security Officer
At SLU, I led information security for a world-class academic, clinical (SLUCare Center for Specialized Medicine), and research organization with campuses in St. Louis, MO and Madrid, Spain.
During this time, I led our global security teams through the transformation of information security from an audit-driven exercise to a mature, well-orchestrated program focused on continuous improvement and community engagement.
In less than two years, we transitioned network security, endpoint security, identity management, vulnerability management, and people-centric technologies to a cloud delivery model capable of serving the sudden shift to telecommuting, remote classrooms, and telemedicine.
We accomplished this through close partnerships with vendors and managed security service providers but, most importantly, by rapidly developing our people to support a sudden shift in organizational requirements, including remote learning, telemedicine, and a cloud-first strategy for the high-performance computing used in scientific research.
Throughout this transformation, my team also ensured the university continually demonstrated compliance with many regulatory and industry frameworks, including HIPAA, FERPA, PCI, DMCA, & GDPR.
2019 : 2021
Saint Louis University
AVP, Chief Information Security Officer
Following my success at Enterprise, I launched Pericuro LLC, the second startup of my career, to provide Security Risk Management (SRM) consulting. Serving clients nationwide, I provided cyber risk advisory services for customer-facing regulatory requirements (e.g. FedRAMP, FISMA, FINRA, and 800-171) to many organizations, identifying efficient strategies to reduce their exposure to cyber risk.
2018 : 2020
Pericuro LLC
Principal, Cyber Risk Advisor
Being promoted four times in as many years led to me managing a strategic security department of 30+ managers, engineers, and architects at one of the world’s largest multi-brand companies (Enterprise, National, and Alamo). While there, I was known for leading the transformation of information security priorities into well-orchestrated programs, leading to better management of costs while ensuring our cybersecurity technologies and partners provided a high level of measurable value.
I also led the modernization of our global, multi-brand PCI (Level 1) annual compliance assessment for multiple years, leading to a dramatic reduction in effort and expense.
2012 : 2018
Enterprise Holdings
Department Manager, Information Security Architecture & Engineering
I provided technical leadership at Savvis (later acquired by CenturyLink, now Lumen) for various global infrastructure projects such as authentication, identity, messaging, and related security technologies supporting the management of 40+ data centers worldwide.
2010 : 2012
Lumen Technologies
Architecture & Engineering Leader
Company:
Quickbase
About
I've spent nearly twenty-five years building great technology departments and consulting organizations, promoting a positive culture of continuous improvement wherever I've been. For the last 10+ years, I've led high-performing cybersecurity teams through the challenges of supporting cloud-first digital transformation strategies.
However, cybersecurity is my what, not my why. My why is working as hard as I can to ensure our purpose is well communicated across the organization, that our community understands how they can help, and that our people love coming to work every day.
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