Larry Whiteside Jr., CISO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY)
Larry Whiteside Jr. is the CISO at Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), the largest private home healthcare provider in the country. In this capacity, he manages a group of security professionals and provides support to all internal and external networks and computer systems used by the corporation and its entities in securing the transmission of data to or from VNSNY corporate facilities. Mr. Whiteside interfaces with engineers, developers and systems personnel to address and identify security issues in current and future projects. He assists in the security review and testing of all networks, servers and applications; troubleshooting problems and recommending solutions; the establishment of security policies and procedures. Core responsibilities include assessing information security posture, evaluating risk, and determining mitigation strategies. Prior to VNSNY, Mr. Whiteside worked at Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. as Deputy CISO, VP of Global Information Security; at Computer Horizons Corp. as a Managing Sr. Security Consultant; at netForensics as a Consultant-Director of Competitive Analysis and Technical Documentation; as Director of IT Security in the Naval Strategic Systems Programs in Washington, D.C.; and at TruSecure Corporation as a Senior Security Analyst. Mr. Whiteside was a United States Air Force Officer from 1994-2002, where he was Chief, Information Warfare/Network Security Divisions at the Pentagon. He was also Chief, Network Security Division - Single Agency Manager at the Pentagon. He has also been an Information Systems Flight Commander and Chief, Network Control Center at the Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. In the Air Force Mr. Whiteside has been honored as the Company Grade Officer of the Year in 1997 and 2000 and has given security status briefings for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and monthly Pentagon Security Group. He received his BS in Computer Science at Huston-Tillotson University in 1994.