Daniel T. Kennedy, Global Head of Information Security, D.B. Zwirn & Co.
Daniel is the Global Head of Information Security at D.B. Zwirn & Co. where he manages the firm's information security program. He is specifically responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the firm's information security policies. He also manages security metrics reporting, the security awareness and education program, security incident response, security audit, and developing the firm's security technology strategy. In this role he works closely with the firm's CIO, COO, head of compliance, head of legal, head of infrastructure, head of client services, and overseas IT managers.

Previously Daniel was Vice President and Program Manager for the application security program at Pershing LLC, a division of the Bank of New York. Daniel’s responsibilities included management of the firm’s application security program, coordination of application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, application security training, documentation of secure coding guidelines, and development of the firm’s application security SDLC. He was the primary liaison for application security concerns between application development and teams such as the Information Security Office, Internal Audit, Information Risk Management (IRM), and the business teams. He served on several firm committees including the Infrastructure Security Workgroup, Security Architecture, and chartered and chaired the firm’s Application Security Council, an interdisciplinary group consisting of application developers and information security subject matter experts.

His previous positions at Pershing included development management and systems’ engineering positions building the firm’s web applications for facilitating online brokerage. He has also been employed at Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette Inc. in a technology analyst role for the Treasury area.

Daniel holds a Masters of Science degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Masters of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelors of Science in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University. He is certified as a C|EH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council, a CISSP, and has a NASD Series 7 license