Richard Israelite

Sr. Director - Information Security

Philadelphia, PA, United States

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Education: Honours, BComm

Information Systems

University of the Witwatersrand

2003

Bond University

Experience: 2022 : Present

Addepar

Director, Information Security

Within this role I am currently or have previously been responsible for the Office of the CISO, global Identity and Access Management initiatives as well as secops including SOC and incident response.

2016 : 2022

BlackRock

Director - Information Security

2005 : 2016

Large Financial Services Company

Vice President - Global Head of the SOC

Constantly liaising with clients in order to administer user access on all of the operating systems, applications and databases used within the organisation.

Understanding security needs of the business in terms of its Information Systems in order to maintain system integrity within the organisation.

Resolving and escalating access related issues.

2004 : 2005

HSBC Investor Fund Services

Systems Security Analyst

1st line systems support and also provided hourly system checks on the UNIX based CREST links.

Constantly liaising with internal customers to resolve general system problems. This required an in depth understanding of the many operating systems, applications, networks and devices within the organisation.

2004 : 2004

HSBC Investor Fund Services

Support Analyst

Company: Addepar

Years of Experience: 20

Skills Active Directory, Computer Security, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Information Security and Risk Management, Information Security Management, ITIL, Management, Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), Penetration Testing, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Metrics and Reporting, Security, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Tools, Unix, Vulnerability and Patch Management and Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Network Intrusion, Vulnerability and Patch, Risk Metrics and, Security Information

About Extensive experience in the IT and Information Security departments of several of the financial services industry’s biggest players and with a proven track record of meeting a multitude of deliverables. Possessing deep technical knowledge with strong leadership ability, people management and communication skills.