Dennis Devlin is an emeritus CISO with a history of accomplishment spanning five decades leading enterprise IT and Information risk management programs in higher education and Fortune 1000. He has planned, provisioned and executed highly successful large-scale initiatives in cybersecurity, digital privacy, identity management, networking, messaging, disaster recovery and business continuity.
During his career Dennis was co-founder and CISO of SAVANTURE, AVP of Information Security and Compliance for George Washington University, Chief Information Security Officer for Brandeis University, VP and Chief Security Officer for The Thomson Corporation (now Thomson-Reuters), a member of the executive IT leadership team for Harvard University, and he began his career in the pharmaceutical industry at Hoechst (now Aventis).
Dennis has presented at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Babson College Center for Information Management Studies, University of Massachusetts Strategic Information Technology Center, Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology at Arizona State University and Boston University Metropolitan College. He has also been a frequent presenter at security conferences including RSA, Qualys, SC Magazine, CSO Magazine, MIS Training Institute, Gartner IT Security Summit, EDUCAUSE, Institute for Computer Policy and Law at Cornell University and the Privacy and Information Management Forum at The George Washington University.
Dennis has also been featured in numerous articles on security and written for CSO Magazine, SC Magazine and Secure Business Quarterly. He was a contributing author to Security 2020: Reduce Security Risks This Decade. Dennis has served on CSO advisory boards for RSA Security, Qualys, Verdasys, GeoTrust, ChosenSecurity, LogMatrix and the CSO Editorial Advisory Board for SC Magazine.
Dennis is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, a faculty member of the Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS), a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute and a former adjunct faculty member in the Information Assurance program at the Rabb School of Continuing Professional Studies at Brandeis University
