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Nils Puhlmann is the Co-Founder of the Cloud Security Alliance, a community of over 4,000 security professionals with the goal to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
As Chief Security Officer of Qualys, Puhlmann was responsible for security, risk management and business continuity planning for Qualys. His responsibilities included the security of the cloud-based QualysGuard SaaS platform. He also lead the Qualys CSO Advisory Board and evangelized at various international industry events in areas of security management and cloud security.
Prior to Qualys, Puhlmann was the Chief Information Security Officer for Electronic Arts, with global responsibility for information security, intellectual property protection, risk management, compliance, physical security, forensics & investigations and business continuity management/disaster recovery.
He was also previously the Chief Information Security Officer at Robert Half International, where he had global responsibility for managing information security, risk management, privacy, forensics & investigations, CERT and Business Continuity Management enterprise wide.
Puhlmann also was previously Director Global IT & Security and Chief Privacy Officer at Mindjet Corp, where he was responsible for managing Mindjet’s global information security, physical security and privacy programs. and Senior Manager Product Security at Adobe Systems, responsible for creating and managing Adobe’s product vulnerability program, overseeing security assessments of Adobe applications, driving product security certifications, and promoting secure development practices. He created Adobe’s product security incident response team, chaired Adobe’s Security Task Force and managed Adobe’s first Common Criteria Certification.
Puhlmann also held senior positions at Nortel Networks and START Amadeus, and was an independent security consultant with clients such as the State of California. He maintains numerous security certifications, including CISSP-ISSMP and CISM. He has held several Board of Directors positions (ISACA Silicon Valley, OVAL), is a member of the CSO Interchange, the CISO Executive Council and a subject matter expert for ISACA and ISC2. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the CISO Forum of ISSA.
