Dennis Brixius
Vice President, Risk Management and Chief Security Officer
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Dennis Brixius joined The McGraw-Hill Companies as Vice President and Chief Security Officer in January 2004. In this role, Mr. Brixius is responsible for establishing a complete information security program to limit technology-based security problems, protect the McGraw-Hill intellectual property rights, ensure business continuity and protect the privacy of our customers. His role also accommodates information risk analysis and assessment, developing security and risk management among internal technology groups, consulting with business units regarding their changing business and technical plans to ensure that information security issues are addressed early in a project’s development and educating senior management about changes in technical, legal and regulatory arenas affecting information security and business continuity.
Prior to joining The McGraw-Hill Companies, Mr. Brixius had a proven track record of solving IT-related business and security problems. Most recently he was director, Enterprise Architecture and chief information security officer at Praxair, Inc. He has occupied senior information management positions at TRW, Inc., BP and two consulting firms. Mr.Brixius has a bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College and an MBA from the University of Delaware.
Mr. Brixius was named CSO of the year by SC Magazine in March of 2007.