The Well-Rounded Security Pro: Insights from Mark Lobel, ISACA

No question, the information security professional's role has evolved in recent years. How, then, has the need for ongoing professional education also changed? And what role must risk management play in today's security organization? In an exclusive interview, Mark Lobel of PricewaterhouseCoopers and ISACA, discusses: The role of professional education in information security; The evolution of risk management; How organizations and professionals must respond to the challenges of 2010. Lobel, CISA, CISM, CISSP, is a member of ISACA's Security Management Committee. He has over 25 years business experience, with the first eight in the Entertainment and Media industry and then, after his MBA, with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is an internationally recognized security and controls professional with experience designing, benchmarking and assessing organizational security strategies and technologies. He is experienced at designing, assessing, implementing and penetration testing enterprise security. Lobel's work has primarily focused on the information communications, entertainment and media and financial services industries. He is the global PricewaterhouseCoopers subject matter expert on security benchmarking and the PwC leader for PCI services in the USA.