Rhonda Ribar

Vice President Information Security/Chief Information Security Officer

San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

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Education: Bachelor of Arts - BA

San Diego State University

MSIT - Masters of Science Information Technology

Golden Gate University

Experience: 2022 : Present

Forcepoint

Chief Information Security Officer

Lead Corporate Security Governance program and delivery service line for CISO Advisory. Proven business and entrepreneurial skills to deliver custom, enterprise wide, highly visible programs and present benefits and key metrics to executive management team and board of directors. Manage a globally distributed team of Information Security professionals, ensuring program delivery for Secureworks, a company that provides innovative, best-in-class security solutions that sit at the heart of customers’ security operations.

2016 : 2022

Secureworks

Director of Cybersecurity/CISO Advisor

Service Manager for Regulatory Affairs maintaining drug licenses, receiving drug approvals, sup-porting inspections from global regulatory agencies (FDA, EMEA, MHRA). Responsible for all service aspects including Information Security, Architecture, SDLC, Incident Response, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Performed technical and security risk assessments. Focus was on external partners enabling privileged access and connectivity to support business and IT functions. Partnered with 3rd parties on controls and remediation efforts to comply with security standards.

Support manager for safety applications, which are responsible for adverse event reporting to satisfy global regulatory compliance mandates including HIPAA compliance.

2010 : 2014

Amgen

Service Manager for Regulatory Affairs and Records Information Management

Led team of 17 full time employees and a varying number of interns and consultants supporting over 1000 enterprise servers for GxP and non-GxP applications hosted on Unix, Linux, VMWare and J2EE. Responsible for physical and virtual server capacity management fulfilling both operational and project engineering needs.

Project Manager of infrastructure projects of all sizes for COTS solutions using RUP and Agile methodologies and applying appropriate levels of ceremony to deliver cost efficient solutions with a support model that scales into the future.

Led staff through ITIL modeled change management, capacity management, incident manage-ment, and problem review activities with additional rigor associated with qualified services to deliver a mature service that scales anticipating future needs.

2008 : 2010

Amgen

Service Manager Corporate Infrastructure

Created enterprise Identity Access Management organization providing a centralized repository utilizing agnostic directories to support all network and application authentication, authorization and provisioning. En-forced password compliance for worldwide workforce to ensure 21 CFR Part 11 compliance and SOX advanced logging and auditing.

Deployed highly available and load balanced solutions for IAM services across Amgen regional sites and satisfying 24/7/365 requirements for Business Continuity goals.

2000 : 2008

Amgen

Global Leader of Identity Management

Company: Forcepoint

Years of Experience: 24

Skills 21 CFR Part 11, Biotechnology, Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Change Control, Clinical Trials, Computer System Validation, CRM, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Cyber, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Software, FDA, GMP, Hosting Services, identity & access management (iam), Information Security, Information Security Management, Information Technology, ISO 27001, IT Service Management, Leadership, Lifesciences, Life Sciences, Linux, Management, NIST, NIST CSF, Operations Management, Pharmaceutical Industry, Process Improvement, Project Management, Provisioning, Risk Management, SDLC, Servers, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strategic Planning, Strategy, Supplier Risk Management, Team Leadership, u.s. health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa), u.s. title 21 cfr part 11 regulation, Vendor Management, VMware, Oncology, nist 800-53, Cross-functional Team, Computer System

About Passionate and disciplined individual who rode her bicycle across the United States. Accomplished, results-driven leader with a proven track record of developing and implementing risk-based, transparent, and collaborative security strategies. Recognized for effectively aligning security initiatives to enable business goals to enhance overall organizational resilience. Adept at fostering cross-functional partnerships and driving cultural change. A transformative leader with life sciences and security provider experience ranging from small to enterprise-sized, global businesses across multiple industries.

Areas of expertise:

Executive Communication on Strategy, Roadmap, Reference Architecture & Business Reviews

Enterprise Risk Management

Identity Access Management

Asset Management/Service Management

Configuration Management

Security Monitoring and Reporting

Data Privacy and Breach Management

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

24/7 Operational Experience