Overview

Stan Black, CISSP, is the Chief Security and Information Officer of Citrix where he is responsible for the secure delivery of applications and data to some of the world’s largest organizations in healthcare, financial services, and more. Black has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, specializing in reducing business risk, threat intelligence, corporate data protection and crisis management.

Because of the success he has had running the global security organization within Citrix, he has also been appointment CIO and holds both job titles. Black’s team has not only unified security and IT, but also the physical security and safety of the company’s employees. Holding the role of CSO and CIO is unique, but monitoring physical security is yet another differentiator of Black’s global security organization. His empowering leadership style hinges on the trust and freedom he gives his team to execute projects and bring new ideas and solutions to reduce the complexity of operations and bring more visibility across IT, product engineering and security to stop the next attack. His team of more than 50 security professionals is able to protect against old and new threats, stopping more than 56 billion unique events per quarter.

As security initiatives become more essential, Black has worked closely with key stakeholders to implement strategy and process for developing more secure products that reduce IT complexity and help facilitate policies that add visibility to find and stop threats faster. The program he and his team developed is called the Security Ninja Program. Its goal is to unify IT, security, product development, and engineering to deliver secure products more efficiently. Through this program, team members are able to improve awareness and education on the practice of developing software, policies and technology with a constant focus on security during the entire software development lifecycle.