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Date started current role: January 2019
Location: Waterloo Ontario, Canada
As Chief Information Security Officer, Peter Romano is responsible for the enterprise security and compliance vision, strategy, and roadmap to ensure eSentire information assets are protected and compliant with various privacy and statutory requirements. He is a security officer and people leader with expertise in the areas of mobile and cloud computing in high growth technical organisations. Over the course of 20+ years in security, he has overseen the creation of organisational capability that dramatically increased the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of internal IT and cloud service offerings.
What was your first job? As a student, I worked in fast food, and learned how to perfect the French fry through an elaborate three step process. A couple of other key take-aways include the importance of being thorough and having a customer-first mentality.
Executives from security company Kaspersky speak at a global partner conference about information security is a key business success factor â a reality that is starting to shine a brighter spotlight on security chiefs. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Kaspersky Lab )
Cybersecurity garnered far more attention in executive boardrooms and among regulators and insurance underwriters during the last couple years, thanks to both an increasing volume of attacks and growing demand for digital transformation. With that, evidence shows, comes a far brighter spotlight on the role of the chief information security officer.
While technically part of the c-suite, CISOs historically received less attention within a company than your average CEO or chief financial officer. Their work tends be invisible when successful, theyâre less likely to speak up in all-hands meetings, and less than half of employees can even name their top security executive.