Mary G. Siero, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, ITILV3

Mary Siero is an executive level Information Technology Consultant and the President of Innovative IT, a leading North Carolina based information technology consulting firm that specializes in IT operational, compliance and security consulting. She is also on the faculty of the MIS Training Institute (now ACI Learning) as a Senior Instructor teaching classes on cybersecurity, IT risk and cloud computing.

Ms. Siero’s career includes ten years as a Chief Information Officer in the healthcare industry, and five years in the gaming industry as Vice President of IT Operations/ Chief Information Security Officer, both heavily regulated industries. She has over 40 years’ experience in engineering and technology from industries such as Healthcare, Government, Education, Gaming and Hospitality, Consumer Products, and Manufacturing.

Ms. Siero is active in the information system security community and has provided testimony on the record for the State of Nevada Information Technology Board regarding The Current and Future Cyber Threat. She routinely presents at national conferences on information technology topics; holds several professional IT security certifications including Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certification in Information Security Management (CISM), Certification in Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC) and ITIL V3 Foundations Certification; and is the author of Safeguarding Your Organizations Data: A Call to Action.

She is a member in good standing of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is a graduate of the University of Detroit with a Master’s Degree in Polymer Chemistry and a graduate of Michigan State University where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry.