Optiv Security Expands Global Financial Services Practice
September 16 2015 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
-- Engages Long-term Financial Services
Consultant, Senior Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School’s
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Marshall Lux;
Hires Greig Arnold, a Former JPMorgan Chase Line of Business CISO
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Optiv Security, the nation’s largest comprehensive pure-play
cyber security solutions provider, today announced the formal
expansion of its Financial Services Practice. This practice
addresses the risk, compliance and cyber security challenges faced
by global financial services organizations as they strive to enable
their businesses to operate in a world where everything is
increasingly linked together. Optiv has engaged Marshall Lux, an
experienced industry leader with deep expertise in financial
services risk and regulatory policy, to serve as a senior advisor
to the practice. The company also has hired financial security
veteran Greig Arnold, a seasoned CISO working within the Fortune
50, to lead the creation of innovative solutions.
Optiv’s Financial Services Practice combines the cyber security
know-how and experience gleaned from more than 12,000 unique client
engagements with technology from leading security product
manufacturers to provide businesses with a comprehensive suite of
integrated and tailored services in three key areas: security
consulting, security operations and security technologies.
“In an ideal world, a cyber security partner selected by a
financial services company would have a deep understanding of the
financial vertical and its unique problems, and have the ability to
deliver a full spectrum of professional services, ranging from
strategic to the very tactical, that work with the company’s
security and IT organizations,” said Christina Richmond, program
director, security services, IDC. “Only a very finite number of
cyber security providers can be the end-to-end partner that can
holistically apply products, policy, services, people, processes,
strategies and tactics assembled to each client’s unique needs and
applied ongoing and programmatically.”
As part of Optiv’s commitment to the financial services
industry, the company has engaged consultant Marshall Lux to serve
as senior advisor to the Financial Services Practice. Lux has
nearly 30 years of experience advising some of the world’s most
established bankers, financiers and C-suite executives. He also
previously served as chief risk officer for all consumer products
at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lux is a second-year fellow at the
Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and
Government, where he has authored papers on community banking and
mortgage finance. As a result, he has been tapped to speak before
the U.S. House of Representatives and the St. Louis Federal Reserve
later this month.
“Cyber security and risk has become a board-level discussion in
the financial services industry where we’ve seen an increase in
security breaches and strict government regulations,” said Lux.
“However, CISOs and other security leaders are dealing with a
significant talent shortage and need support at all stages of
planning, building and running their security programs. I’m excited
to work with Optiv to help financial security companies balance
ideals with realities and maturity so that they can better achieve
security success.”
Two other recent additions to the Optiv Financial Services
Practice are Greig Arnold and Patrick Sheehan. Arnold is a former
chief information security officer of global organizations such as
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and KPMG. As a vice president in the Optiv
Office of the CISO, Arnold is charged with creating programs and
innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Arnold
will closely partner with Sheehan, who serves as vice president and
managing director of Optiv’s Financial Services Practice. Sheehan
brings extensive experience working with large enterprises and
understands the scale of these types of organizations and the
business challenges they face.
“Marshall, Greig and Patrick are valuable additions to our
already exceptional team comprised of hundreds of cyber security
experts,” said Dan Burns, chief executive officer for Optiv. “At
Optiv, we live, breathe and sleep cyber security because it is our
sole focus. We are excited to expand our Financial Services
Practice and believe that we are uniquely qualified to help the
industry effectively address business technology risks and help
organizations execute mature security programs.”
Optiv currently helps two-thirds of Fortune 500 global financial
services and insurance organizations address and mitigate the risks
posed by cybersecurity threats. These companies have leveraged
Optiv to help plan, build, and run successful security programs in
the areas of third-party risk, cyber threat management, governance
and compliance, and identity and access management. Additionally,
Optiv strives to work collaboratively with financial services
clients to create and develop innovative solutions that address the
cybersecurity challenges facing the marketplace.
About Optiv SecurityCreated in 2015 from the merger of
Accuvant and FishNet Security, Optiv is the largest comprehensive
pure-play cyber security solutions provider in North America. We
help clients plan, build and run successful cyber security programs
that achieve business objectives through our depth and breadth of
cyber security offerings, extensive capabilities and proven
expertise in cyber security strategy, managed security services,
incident response, risk and compliance, security consulting,
training and support, integration and architecture services, and
security technology. A Blackstone (NYSE: BX) portfolio company, we
have served more than 12,000 clients of various sizes across
multiple industries, offer an extensive geographic footprint, and
have premium partnerships with more than 300 of the leading
security technology manufacturers. For more information, visit
www.optiv.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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