Dennis is an emeritus CISO with nearly five decades of accomplishment leading enterprise IT and information risk management in both private industry and higher education. He has built and led teams that delivered highly successful enterprise-class initiatives and programs in information security, privacy, identity management, messaging, business continuity and emergency notification. Dennis serves as a Distinguished Fellow for the Ponemon Institute and a Contributing Author for Amazon’s Security 2020.

• Data Classification
• Risk Management
• Security Policies & Strategy
• Team Structure & Management
• Metrics & Reporting

• Speaker at education institutions and information security conferences such as RSA and Gartner
• Co-Founder and former CISO for SAVANTURE, Inc., a cloud security services provider
• Former AVP for Information Security and Compliance Services at George Washington University
• Former CISO and Adjunct Faculty at Brandeis University
• Former Corporate VP & CSO at The Thomson Corporation (now Thomson-Reuters)
• Former member of executive IT leadership at Harvard University

• BA –University of Pennsylvania

In his free time, Dennis enjoys digital photography, world travel and volunteering.

Dennis Devlin joined the IANS Faculty in 2008. He provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: data classification, risk management, security policies & strategy, team structure & management, metrics & reporting.