C. Warren Axelrod, Business Information Security Officer, United States Trust Company, N.A.
C. Warren Axelrod is the Business Information Security Officer for the United States Trust Company, N.A. At US Trust he interfaces with the firm’s business units and parent company (Charles Schwab & Co.) to identify security risks and mitigate them, and to ensure that employees are familiar with security policies, standards, and procedures and follow them.
He has worked in many areas of the financial services industry, at firms such as SIAC (Securities Industry Automation Corporation), HSBC Securities and Pershing. He is involved at both the industry and national level with security and critical infrastructure protection issues respectively. He is a member of the SIA Information Security Subcommittee, the FSSCC R&D Committee and several BITS working groups. He has contributed to a number of BITS publications.
Warren was honored with a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award in 2003 and his department's implementation of an intrusion detection system was given a Best in Class award.
He represented financial services information security interests at the Y2K command center in Washington, DC during the century date rollover. He is a founder of the FS/ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) and served two terms on its Board of Managers. The FS/ISAC is a public-private collaborative effort to share information on security threats, vulnerabilities and incidents among members. He testified at a Congressional Hearing in November 2001 on the subject of cyber security and contributed a section in the Banking and Finance Sector's “National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure Assurance,” published in May 2002. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ISSA Journal.
Warren has participated in many professional and industry conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. He has published two books on computer management and numerous articles on a variety of information technology and information security topics, including computer and network security, contingency planning, and computer-related risks. His third book “Outsourcing Information Security” was published by Artech House in September 2004.
He holds a PhD in managerial economics from the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and honors bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering, economics and statistics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is certified as a CISSP and CISM and has NASD Series 7 and Series 24 licenses.