Jackie Bassett & Daniel Rothman
Innovative new business models, distribution channels, marketing
media outlets for gaining customer interest and emerging technologies are all
converging to change the way we do business and at a faster rate than predicted
or designed. Globalization is forcing inefficiencies out, which are presenting
themselves as security events.
Innovation-driven CEOs recognize that a security breach
represents an underlying revenue and profitability problem in a core business
process that has gone undetected. As a result, many CEOs are starting to integrate
security into business strategy to drive profits, corporate performance and
business agility, as well as to deliver a competitive business advantage
that transforms global corporations into sustainable success.
Jackie Bassett is founder and CEO of BT Industrials Inc., where she helps CEOs and CSOs of global 500 companies integrate security into their business strategies and processes. Her expertise is in closing the "business-to-IT–strategy" gap by identifying ways to improve business processes, productivity, profitability and shareholder value.
As an IT security subject-matter expert, she has published several articles in SecurityInfowatch, ITAudit and other industry publications, as well as on the IT Compliance Institute Web site. She has co-authored business courses, such as Closing the Business to IT Strategy Gap, Communicating Audit Reports to Executives: From Audit To Action and Social Engineering Resistance Training.
She is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars throughout the United States, most recently presenting at ISACA, the Federal CIO Executive Council, SecureWorld and at a national series of events for a consortium of CFOs. Prior to BT Industrials, she was one of the first 100 employees at Netscreen Security which successfully IPO'd, then was acquired by Juniper for $4Billion dollars. Her background is in investment banking having worked at State Street International, as Assistant Treasurer for Capital Markets - Eurodollar Trading.
As an active member of Business Executives for National Security, Bassett works extensively with CEOs and CSOs on strategic planning issues specializing in innovation strategies. She holds an MBA from Babson College and can be reached at jackieb@btind.com.
“Jackie and Dan have provided an excellent roadmap for CEO's and CSO's to traverse in their quest to maximize the value-add resulting from an effective and properly focused security program targeted at managing the overall risk profile of a corporation."
- L. E. Mattice, Vice President
Chief Security Officer, Boston Scientific
“Managing information securely is a fundamental concern of all commercial businesses today!”
- Dr John Atalla, distinguished entrepreneur and visionary known as the “Father of PIN”, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Labs, inventor of the Atalla Box ATM security systems
“Bassett and Rothman are “on target” with this book…..a must read for CEOs who want to grow and expand in this globally interconnected and rapidly evolving technological business environment. A Seat at the Table provides a recipe for that successful CSO – CEO team.
- Brigadier General Bob Edmonds, USAF(retired),consultant with Heidrick & Struggles International where his practice includes the emerging role of the CSO
