Rebecca Herold Senior Consultant

Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CISA, CISM, FLMI, CIPP, is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Strategies practice. She has been an information privacy, security, and compliance consultant, author, and instructor with her own company, Rebecca Herold & Associates, LLC, “The Privacy Professor” since mid-2003. Ms. Herold has more than two decades of privacy and information security experience and has provided information security, privacy, and compliance services to organizations in a wide range of industries throughout the world. In 2008, her blog was named one of the "Top 50 Internet Security Blogs" by the Daily Netizen. In both 2008 and 2007, Ms. Herold was named one of the "Best Privacy Advisers" as well as "Best Privacy Firm" by Computerworld and, in 2007, she was named one of the "Top 59 Influencers in IT Security" by IT Security.

Ms. Herold is also an Adjunct Professor for the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance program. Over the past decade, she has been delivering one- and two-day information security and privacy training workshops that help organizations learn how to effectively manage their information security, privacy, and legal areas in order to most effectively assure privacy and regulatory compliance while efficiently implementing security controls. Ms. Herold has created customized one- and two-day training for the specific needs of many different organizations. She is the creator and editor of Protecting Information, a multimedia security and awareness quarterly publication, the training tool "Security Search #1," and is releasing a series of online information security and privacy training modules.

Ms. Herold has served as a board and council member of various organizations. In addition, she is frequently interviewed and quoted in Wired, Popular Science, CUinfosecurity, Bankinfosecurity, SearchWinIT, Consumer Financial Services Law Report, Computerworld, hcPro Briefings on HIPAA, SC Magazine, SearchSecurity, Information Security, Business 2.0, Disaster Resource Guide, Boston Herald, Pharmaceutical Formulation and Quality, IT Business Edge, Fortifying Network Security, IT Architect, CIO Strategy Center, Physicians Weekly, IEEE's Intelligent Systems, Cutter IT Journal , Health Information Compliance Insider, Baseline, Western Michigan Business Review, and others, including the "Privacy Piracy" California radio broadcast and the "Michigan Technology News" radio broadcast.

Ms. Herold is currently working on her 13th book. Books she has written include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Privacy Management Toolkit, and she cowrote The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance and Say What You Do. She has also authored chapters for dozens of books along with close to 200 published articles, including contributions to Cutter Benchmark Review and Cutter IT Journal (as Guest Editor). Ms. Herold has been writing a monthly information privacy column for the Computer Security Institute's Computer Security Alert newsletter since 2001 and contributes articles to other publications regularly. Ms. Herold has a BS in math and computer science and an MA in computer science and education. She can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.