Scott Sykes named Chief Information Security Officer at Asurity Technologies

Asurity Technologies, a provider of consumer lending compliance software and services, named Scott Sykes as Chief Information Security Officer. Sykes was previously CISO at Netcracker Technology and Tata Communications. In the role, he will oversee data security and compliance on an enterprise-wide basis.

According to the release, Sykes steered compliance at Netcracker Technology and Tata Communications with customer mandated specifications and with security requirements the U.S. Department of Justice imposed. The release says that over his career Sykes has worked closely with government regulators in the European Union and United States while building and implementing global security programs. He has built and managed security organizations spanning customer delivery, audits, GRC, infrastructure security, application security and a security operations center, the release says. According to the company, Sykes has over 15 years of experience as a CISO. At Tata Communications, the company says, Sykes kept the company compliant with CIFIUS security demands that were monitored by the DOD, DHS, FBI and DOJ. His financial services experience, according to the company, includes leading the Security Strategy team at Capital One and leading web presence and related security matters at Genworth. The company says his teams built and ran processes for SIEM monitoring, incident response, vendor risk management, code testing, security awareness training and encryption key management. According to the company, Sykes ensured adherence to more than 100 customer contracts, each with its own security demands. Sykes holds security certifications including CISM, CISA, CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP and Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate, the company says.

Sykes holds an MBA from the Anderson School of UCLA and an electrical engineering degree from the University of Delaware, the company says. The release says Asurity also offers a mortgage loan compliance solution that runs comprehensive checks on loan-level data pulled from any integrated LOS.

According to the release, Asurity's products include RiskExec, a reporting and analytics platform that helps lenders meet regulatory requirements for fair lending and CRA. The release says Asurity's advisory services help institutions mitigate compliance, operational and regulatory risks.