William Sieglein
Mr. Sieglein has 25 years in the IT industry specializing in information security, risk and compliance management. His experience is broad and includes assessments, architecture development, infrastructure planning, disaster recovery planning, product evaluation and implementation, program and policy development, project management and training & awareness development and delivery.
His career includes 11 years with the National Security Agency, 6 years with Booz, Allen & Hamilton consulting the US and foreign intelligence communities, 3 years as the security infrastructure planner at T. Rowe Price Investments, 3 years as the Security Solutions Architect for Fortrex Technologies and is now the VP of Corporate Strategy with True North Solutions a premier information security solutions provider in the North America.
Mr. Sieglein has held key positions with many of his major clients. As a consultant, he has been the Director of IT Security for an international, touch-less bank; the Director of Information Security for a large, non-profit, membership organization and most recently he held the position of Chief Security Officer for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) – the organization established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Mr. Sieglein has recently joined NSC Inc. at Vice President of Product Management where he will oversee the development and deployment of the Common Compliance Framework ™ application. NSC is one of Nobska’s first investments.
Mr. Sieglein is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia. He is the co-author of the book “Security Planning & Disaster Recovery” with former Fortrex CTO Eric Maiwald. He has authored numerous articles for paper and on-line magazines and was the security expert for one of CMP publications on-line magazines. He is on the Gerson-Lehrman consulting board where he frequently advises investment professionals on the state of the information security market.
Mr. Sieglein holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and three children