Laura Deaner is Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at DTCC. In this role, she is responsible for managing DTCC’s enterprise-wide cyber strategies to protect the firm’s information and systems as well as designing and enhancing the organization’s information and cybersecurity programs and roadmaps to support DTCC business and resiliency efforts. She also ensures that cyber resilience is incorporated into strategic firm initiatives, including product and technology deployments, AI-fueled innovation and cloud adoption.
Laura has more than 25 years of leadership and expertise in information security management. Prior to DTCC, Laura served as CISO at Northwestern Mutual, S&P Global and, before that, PR Newswire. In each of these endeavors, she led major cybersecurity transformation initiatives, bringing innovative approaches, new security practices and novel security architecture and governing practices, which produced measurable increases in program maturity. Prior to that, she served in roles of increasing responsibility at Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup.
Laura is an active member of the Global Board of Directors of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), an industry consortium dedicated to reducing cyber-risk in the global financial system. She is also a member of several information security and technology societies including OWASP, WiCyS, ISC2, and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Old Dominion University in the state of Virginia and is based in Brooklyn, New York.