Rebecca has 25+ years of systems engineering, information security, privacy & compliance experience, is CEO of The Privacy Professor® consultancy she founded in 2004, & President of SIMBUS, LLC Information Security, Privacy & Compliance cloud services she founded in 2014. Rebecca designed and engineered the SIMBUS architecture and associated services, including for online employee and contractor information security and privacy training and awareness, vendor management, risk management assessments and evaluations, policies and procedures, program management tasks, breach response, audit management, employee oversight and management, and inventory management. Rebecca has authored 19 books, the last two of which were privacy books published by ISACA in 2017; one titled, “ISACA Privacy Principles and Program Management Guide” and the other titled, “Implementing a Privacy Protection Program: Using COBIT 5 Enablers With the ISACA Privacy Principles.” Rebecca has contributed to dozens of other books and written hundreds of articles. Rebecca led the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup for 7 years, performed the first electric grid cybersecurity OpenFMB testing for NIST, was a co-founder/officer for IEEE P1912 Privacy and Security Architecture for Consumer Wireless Devices Working Group, and is on many advisory boards.
Rebecca has been an IAPP certification faculty member since 2010. Rebecca was Adjunct Professor for the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Security & Assurance program for 9 years, has received numerous awards and has keynoted on 5 continents to date. Rebecca appears regularly on the KCWI23 morning television show, hosts the Voice America radio show “Data Security & Privacy with the Privacy Professor” with a new show each week, and is quoted in a large number of diverse publications. Rebecca has also served as an information security, privacy and compliance expert witness. Rebecca has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Education. Rebecca earned the following certifications: CISM, CISA, FIP, CIPT, CIPM, CIPP/US, CISSP, FLMI. Rebecca is based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. rebeccaherold@rebeccaherold.com. www.privacyguidance.com, www.SIMBUS360.com, https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2733/data-security-and-privacy-with-the-privacy-professor