Frank  Siepmann Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Frank Siepmann

Managing Director 1SSA, LLC
ISACA, ISC2, ISSA-NoVA former Board Member

Security Executive that has been working in IT since 1987 and with a special focus on Information Security since 1996. Mr. Siepmann has worked with leading consulting organizations and Fortune 100 organizations in leadership positions.

Biography

Security Executive with over 29 years of IT and 17 years of Information Security experience, leading matrixed security organizations and programs with globally dispersed teams. He has been known to challenge the status quo by creating new value propositions. Core expertise include International Security Programs, GRC, Privacy, IAM/IDM, Application and Cloud Security.

With over 7 years of his career at leading Big-4 consulting companies in executive or senior management roles he has worked for many Fortune 100 companies. Some of his roles include Director of Information Security for a $4B business unit, Security Executive (CISO) for the largest outsourcing deal of a Big-4 consulting company and Security Architect for the cloud initiative of a Fortune 10 financial institution.

In 2008 he established his own security consulting company 1SSA, providing services to U.S. government entities and commercial companies in the U.S. and Europe. He has presented at International Security Conferences and has published throughout his whole career. His first book is scheduled for release in 2013.

Mr. Siepmann holds a degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). He worked as an ICS expert between 1987 and 1991 at Bayer AG.

Education

    Electrical Engineering (ICS), University of Applied Science Cologne, 1998

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    - Impact of outsourced operations on the overall risk posture of an organization.
    - Risks, Security and safety of Industrial Control Systems in an Internet connect industry.

Personal Interests

    Bicycle, Cars, Movies, Travel, Working Out

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Books

Featured Title
 Featured Title - Managing Risk & Security in Outsourcing IT Services - 1st Edition book cover

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Cyber Security Framework for Critical Infrastructure

By: Frank Siepmann
Subjects: Computer Science & Engineering, Homeland Security, Information Technology

I have been working with the contractor team, the team at NIST and the Whitehouse since the relaease of the discussion draft, to improve the framework. The goal is that by the time of the release of the first official versionthe framework is a useful document for all 13 critical infrastrcture sectors, no matter if you are a small organization or a large one, the framework should help you to address cyber security risks.