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Biography
Rhonda MacLean is the founder of MacLean Risk Partners, LLC.
As the former leader of Bank of America’s Corporate Information Security group, MacLean was responsible for the company’s security policies and procedures; information risk management; security technology implementations, including perimeter and internal system defense; cyber investigations; computer forensics; and general information security awareness for the company’s leadership, associate base, and outside suppliers. She is also a member of the bank’s Information Protection Steering Committee. MacLean has spent more than 20 years in the information technology industry and is an important national voice in the information security industry. Immediately before joining Bank of America in 1996, she was responsible for information security at The Boeing Company, managing Boeing proprietary and government programs. MacLean has been influential on the larger stage. After many years of service on some of the industry’s most important associations, groups and think tanks, she was appointed in 2002 by the Secretary of the Treasury to serve as the first sector coordinator and chairperson of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. In that role, she brought together 25 financial service trade associations, utilities, and professional institutes, working with Treasury’s private sector liaison to create several important industry initiatives. When her two-year appointment ended, MacLean maintained an active role as chairperson emeritus of the Council and as an advisor to the Congressional Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census, in her capacity as a member of the Corporate Information Security Working Group. She also sits on the Global Council of CSOs, a think tank of senior cyber leaders from the public, private, and academic sectors. MacLean was named as one of the 50 most powerful people in the network industry in NetworkWorld’s December, 2003 issue, and was also featured on the cover of Information Security magazine in September, 2003, when she was recognized as one of the top business leaders shaping the information security industry.
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