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About mclaukl

Professional Certifications - Certified CISO, CISM, CISSP, PMP, ITIL Master Certified, GIAC Security Leadership Certificate (GSLC), CRISC. Kevin also holds Certificates in the Advanced Principles of Information Security and in Advanced Information Security Research Methods from Jones International University. Kevin L. McLaughlin began his career as a Special Agent for the Department of Army. He was responsible for investigating Felony crimes around the globe. He has had many careers over the years, including being a Police Officer in Kissimmee Florida, an Investigator for Mastercard/Visa, a Middle School teacher, a Director at Kennedy Space Center (where he worked with Fred Hayes, James Lovell, Armstrong, Sheppard, etc.), the President of his own company, an IT Manager and Senior Information Security manager with the Procter & Gamble (P&G) company (fortune 35), a CISO at the University of Cincinnati and a Senior Information System Security Manager for the Whirlpool Corporation (fortune 125). Kevin has also been an adjunct since 1992. While at P&G Kevin created one of P&G’s augmentation outsourcing teams in India. Kevin designed and implemented this India team and it won a global Gold Service award from Atos-Origin and has acted as a model for countless corporate relationships since. Over the years Kevin has: created an Information Security program conducted Information Security Strategic planning designed Information Security solutions, investigated over 700 Cyber cases and operated a Global Security Operations Center. • Education - MS in Computer Science Education, BS in Management of Information Systems * PhD in Cyber Security, University of Fairfax

In Cyber Crisis

We are a country in crisis in regards to adopting adequate Information Security practices.   I am not an alarmist but when I review the Cyber Security update that my team compiles and sends out a couple of times per week … Continue reading

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A Myth of Information Security: All data needs to be protected!

When you think about the total amount of data that goes across an organization on a daily basis protecting all of it becomes a daunting, if not impossible, task. It is hard to wrap one’s mind around how much a … Continue reading

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Common Sense Requires No Policy

As a Senior Information Security professional I am often asked if we should have a policy that requires our Business Community members to do “X”.  In many of these cases the person is asking for a policy to be written … Continue reading

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Action, Not Inaction is What Being a Leader is All About

In Model-Netics methodology by Main Event Management you are taken through a management course that makes use of standard and what some would call common sense management rules to demonstrate and teach how to handle a lot of the items … Continue reading

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Building the Information Assurance Program

In 1948 in his book “The Seven Story Mountain”, Thomas Merton wrote “Success – the logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy:  the strange error that our perfection depends on the thought and opinions and applause of other men.” … Continue reading

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Non-Expiring Passwords for C Level Employees. Really?

So, the other day while teaching my Online Course in Computer Security for the University of Advancing technologies I had a student ask me what they should do if their CFO asked to have an unexpiring password in a publicly … Continue reading

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My own webpage, who would have ever thought it?  I know back in the 8th grade when they gave us some sort of “here’s what you have the ability to be in your life” test and mine came back that … Continue reading

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