Rick Lawhorn, CISSP, CISA, Principle of Information Security & Compliance, Dataline Inc.
Richard Lawhorn is the Principle of Information Security & Compliance for Dataline Inc., which focuses on architecture and infrastructure solutions, information risk management, security governance, and compliance assessments. Prior to joining Dataline, Rick was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for GE Financial Assurance, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Genworth Financial and served in information technology leadership roles within Hunton & Williams law firm and the National White Collar Crime Center. He has more than 16 years of information technology experience and 7 years in information security experience. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is also a Certified HIPAA Professional and Security Specialist (CHP/CHSS), Tenable Certified Nessus Professional (TNCP) and is Six Sigma-Green Belt Certified.
Rick has been published in numerous domestic and international security magazines such as Information Security, SC Magazine and (IN)Secure Magazine. In addition, he is serving on several advisory boards for innovative security products and has created a working group focused on developing meaningful metrics for CISOs.
Information Security Magazine “Perspectives” article, Nov 2006 issue
http://informationsecurity.techtarget.com/magItem/0,291266,sid42_gci1228185,00.html

SC Magazine “From The CSO desk” article, May 2006 Issue
http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/556582/reduce+risk+vendor+onus/

SC Magazine “From The CSO desk” article, Oct 2006 Issue
http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/599025/raising-ante-anti-virus-tools/

SC Magazine “Go Beyond Checkbox Security” May 2007 Issue
http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/655563/go-beyond-checkbox-security/

(IN)Secure Magazine “Security Focus on China BPO” Sept 2007
http://www.net-security.org/dl/insecure/INSECURE-Mag-13.pdf