Ben Pournader

Ben Pournader (CGEIT, CDPSE, CISM, CISA, CRISC) is an Information Security Engineer and Manager with a distinguished career, having worked for prominent companies in Silicon Valley, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Cisco. With nearly 25 years of experience in IT and security, Ben has a deep expertise in Information Security Engineering and Cybersecurity Management. Throughout his career, Ben has played a pivotal role in helping numerous organizations build and enhance their cybersecurity programs and Information Security Management Systems. Ben is a one-man army who is not only good at cybersecurity operations, information security and cloud architecture but also a subject matter expert in information security and privacy compliance inducing PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, SOX, NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (NYCRR 500), FFIEC, NIST standards (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-30, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-63, NIST 800-171, ...) and so on.