#CISOFORUMGLOBAL / ADVISORY BOARD / Omar Khawaja

OMAR KHAWAJA

Omar Khawaja, serving as a Chief Information Security Officer at Highmark Health and a Board Member at HITRUST, is a leader with skills focusing on securing the Cyber Space and sharing real-life knowledge as a Security Advisor and Speaker. He is known to be passionate about reaching communities, creating cyber aware campaigns, leveraging new and innovative approaches and technologies to holistically address the information security and privacy needs for every person and organization in the world.

He believes that security programs should be business driven and technology ought to be subordinate to business outcomes and service improvements. He believes in focusing on developing a robust governance program, building a strong team and enabling users to be an asset (vs. a liability) on the security controls balance sheet.