Ken Belva, Information Security Officer, Credit Industriel et Comercial
Kenneth F. Belva currently manages an Information Technology Risk Management Program for a bank whose assets are Billions of dollars. He reports directly to the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager (CFO).
ITsecurity.com recognized him as one of the top information security influencers in 2007.
He is currently on the Board of Directors for the New York Metro Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He is the Chair of the Public Relations Committee. In this role Mr. Belva is in charge of communication between the Chapter and other information security related professional organizations.
He has spoken and moderated at the United Nations as well as presented on AT&T’s Internet Security News Network (ISNN) on discovering unknown web application vulnerabilities as well as being interviewed on security enablement.
He recently co-authored a paper entitled “Creating Business Through Virtual Trust: How to Gain and Sustain a Competitive Advantage Using Information Security” with Sam Dekay of The Bank of New York. In 2005 he authored the contrarian paper: “How It’s Difficult to Ruin A Good Name: An Analysis of Reputation Risk” which was a leading paper on the impact of security breaches on stock prices.
He taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Business Computer Systems Department at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. Mr. Belva is credited by Microsoft and IBM for discovering vulnerabilities in their software. He is the author of the chapter “Encryption in XML” in Hackproofing XML published by Syngress.
Mr. Belva holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certifications and has passed the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
Mr. Belva frequently presents at information security conferences around the country.
In addition to his professional responsibilities, he currently sits on the Board of Directors for Franklin and Marshall College’s Regional Alumni Council for the New York Metro area.