Global CISO Forum 2020 - Keyaan Williams

Keyaan J Williams is the Founder and Managing Director of Cyber Leadership and Strategy Solutions (CLASS-LLC), a professional services firm that helps global clients with cybersecurity strategy, program management, and workforce development. His professional experience includes two decades of support for corporate information security and risk management programs in large, regulated enterprises.

Keyaan’s reputation for leadership was established when he led the operational transformation of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) as the President of the International Board of Directors. He also served as the Sr. Manager Global Information Security with the DB Consulting Group working to build the program that standardized information security, risk management, and compliance practices across 46 country offices in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. This position stemmed from his previous service as Director Information Security (ISSO) for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he directed all aspects of information security, compliance, and risk management within the CDC Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS).

Keyaan has contributed to many books and publications, including his role as a leading author of the Certified CISO Body of Knowledge used by EC-Council to train and certify thousands of global technology and security executives.

Keyaan’s talk at Global CISO Forum is titled Avoiding Senseless Security Metrics: A new prescription for seeing security information clearly. In Keyaan’s own words: The struggle with metrics affects all business leaders who strive to measure and communicate the value of their programs and initiatives. Security metrics might be the most difficult measurements to communicate because non-technical business leaders and security executives speak completely languages. This session shines a new light onto old security measurements to help our business counterparts see the information more clearly.