Building the “Real” Resiliency Through the CIO/CISO Partnership

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Presenters

Mike Santimaw, SVP, Chief Information Officer
Jason Frugé, VP, Chief Information Security Officer, Rent-A-Center

Leading with a focus towards an “Information Resilience” methodology is required to maintain predictable business operations and associated security posture. The partnership between the CISO and CIO is more important than ever before.

Today, we can be more confident than ever before that complete attack avoidance is impossible. Our need to design critical information systems to absorb the attacks and not disrupt the business is more significant than ever before. Shifting toward Information Resilience is a pragmatic and refreshing approach that will resonate with all business leaders. Traditionally, resiliency was thought to be about having a great disaster recovery plan. Join us to learn how today, it’s about putting the most resources where they matter most.

We invite you to join Mike and Jason as they discuss the lessons that brought them toward this journey of resilience.

About Our Speakers

Mike Santimaw is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Rent-A-Center. One of the nation’s largest rent-to-own retailers operating in 2400 locations between their corporate and franchised owned stores. During his tenure, Mike has been responsible for transforming the Rent-A-Center technology team into a world-class technology organization that fosters innovation and operational excellence with the goal to evolve the customer experience and value proposition for their consumers.

Prior to Rent-A-Center, he served as senior partner at the innovation firm, 2THEDGE. Mike was responsible for developing and leading the Information Security Practice, while also helping some of the world’s largest companies transform their traditional products and services through the leveraging of next-generation capabilities. Mike has also held senior leadership positions at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, and BDP International, a leading privately held global transportation and logistics management firm.

Mike lives in McKinney, Texas, where he and his wife, Dawn, of 21 years are raising their two daughters.

As the current VP and CISO for Rent-A-Center, Jason is responsible for providing leadership and information security advice, governance, and subject-matter expertise to the company’s extensive global team of technical operations staff who administer critical distributed information systems.

Jason has more than 20 years of information security and IT leadership experience, focusing on enterprise security management, regulatory compliance, information security program development, and enterprise security technologies. Before Rent-A-Center, Jason was VP of Business Application Cyber Security for Onapsis. Before that, he held VP & CISO roles for Fossil Group, Signet Jewelers, Cerner Corporation, and he was SVP & Global Information Security Officer for Citi.