Building the Next Generation Security Architecture

Lorna Koppel, CISO, Kohler Company

This presentation focuses on the building blocks required to build a solid framework for the ever changing security industry.  Taking into consideration both physical and IT technology viewers will get a sense of how to get started and what is most important.

Lorna Koppel started as Director-IT Security (CISO) for Kohler Company on 6 January 2006. She reports to Sr. Vice President-Technical Services in this newly established role designed to bring focus to the growing IT security needs of Kohler's global systems environment.  Key responsibilities of this position include:  

•    Assessing and managing the security risks of new and established IT technologies.      

•    Management and 24/7operation of the overall security for the global IT environment, including development and implementation of security policies, architectures and global standards.   

•    Bridging the gap between corporate business processes and policy directives and specific technology security measures.

Before assuming this position, Lorna held various security management positions at BT Infonet Services Corp. including, most recently, Director, Global Security Group.  BT Infonet is a world leading organization, based in El Segundo, Calif.,  which provides global communication services such as WAN, intranet, Internet, broadband, remote access, mobility solutions and security services to over 3,000 multinational enterprises. Lorna has also worked for Computer Sciences Corporation in the security/network gateway services group at Hughes/Raytheon (based in El Segundo, CA), for MESO, Inc. (based in Troy, NY) as manager of E-Weather Operations, and for the United States Air Force as Commander Eighth Air Force Weather Support Unit and Wing Weather Officer supporting 2nd Weather Squadron (based at Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, LA).

Lorna earned her bachelor degree in physics from Bowling Green State University, a bachelor degree in meteorology from Pennsylvania State University, and her master’s degree in atmospheric science from New York State University.

In Nov, 2010 Lorna was recognized as one of the industry’s Most Influential People in Security in the area of Information Technology/Cyber Security Practitioners by Security magazine.

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