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About Me

Founder & Senior Architect at The Wildprett Group LLC
Information Assurance Consulting Services

http://www.wildprett.com
Suspicious Minds Blog: http://suspiciousminds.wordpress.com/

People ask me, ‘What do You do?’ I tell them, “I help keep businesses safe online. I do this by helping them understand and evaluate risk so they can spend appropriately and better manage their IT assets.”

To do this, I specialize in IT Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) planning and assessments.

I’ve been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since February, 2006 and am studying for the Certified Information Systems Auditor examination in June, 2010.

Bill Wildprett, CISSP’s Specialties:

~ Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

~ ISO 27001/27002 planning, NIST SP-800-53 risk assessments

~ Baseline vulnerability assessments

~ Information systems security architecture

~ Systems development lifecycle management

~ Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity planning

~ Security Policies & Procedures, Awareness Training

Work History

• The Wildprett Group LLC
• Founder
• January 2008 to Present

• Information Assurance Consulting Services

  People ask me, ‘What do You do?’ I tell them, “I help keep businesses safe online. I do this by helping them understand and evaluate risk so they can spend appropriately and better manage their IT assets.”

  To do this, I specialize in IT Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) planning and assessments.

• St of WA Comm, Trade & Econ Devlp
• Information Systems Architect, CISSP
• July 1997 to December 2008

• Decade - plus of increasing responsibility in secure network design, systems analysis and development, and full systems & software lifecycle project management. Proven history of creating innovative security programs that decreased systems threat exposure, and increased security awareness of staff and end-users. Outstanding leadership abilities; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing and motivating external project teams. Adept at developing effective security policies and procedures, project documentation and milestones, and technical/business specifications.

Education

• University of Washington
• BA, Economic Geography, Resource Management
• 1982 - 1988

• Graduate Research Assistant