About Vlad the Impaler

Name:

Joe Faraone

Website

http://www.guerilla-ciso.com/

Profile

Joe Faraone, besides being a spitting imitation of George Lucas, is the guy who did one of the earliest certification and accreditations and informally laid down some of the concepts that became doctrine.

His official press bio:
Joe Faraone is a Senior Information Security Architect with GCI Corporation, based in Reston, Virginia with over 20 years’ experience in Information Security. A former Naval Officer, Joe has delivered services for numerous Federal customers including Certification and Accreditation support, Security Governance Gap Analysis and Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V). Over his career, he has served as Lead Independent Security Engineer, Manager and Architect of a managed security center for an Intelligence Community Agency, and has performed Certification and Accreditation services for several high-assurance systems. He has served customers including the Central Intelligence Agency; National Security Agency; other U.S. Intelligence agencies, Department of Justice, Department of Energy, Federal Trade Commission, United States Navy; United States Army; United States Marine Corps; and United States Air Force. He has also served customers in State and Local Government, Education, and Law Enforcement as well as private-sector customers in the Financial Services, Entertainment, Food Services and Technology industries.

Joe is currently acting as Enterprise Security Architect for a government agency. He is providing day-to-day CISO-support on matters from Intrusion Detection packet analysis to governance.

Joe’s unique technical background and experience allows him to provide insights to C&A and other security processes across multiple agencies and compliance frameworks. This makes him equally able to converse with highly technical staff of a data center or executives in the boardroom. He is often called upon to rapidly solve solutions issues to meet project deadlines.

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