Laura Deaner named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Laura Deaner has been appointed CISO at DTCC. Prior to this role, she served as CISO at Northwestern Mutual, S&P Global, and PR Newswire, and also held leadership roles at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase.

SecurityWeek reports that DTCC, which it describes as a financial market infrastructure company, has announced Deaner's appointment to the CISO role.

On Feb. 2, 2021, Northwestern Mutual announced that Deaner, as its CISO, would lead the Enterprise Information Risk & Cybersecurity team. The company said she would also be responsible for spearheading the information security strategy at Northwestern Mutual. Northwestern Mutual said Deaner is the first woman to hold the Chief Information Security Officer position at the company.

Northwestern Mutual's release said Deaner had more than 21 years of cybersecurity experience with multi-national Fortune 500 companies. It listed her expertise as incident response, regulatory compliance, data integrity, data security, risk management and information security across industries such as media and financial services. Northwestern Mutual said her most recent post before joining was CISO at S&P Global, and that earlier she held leadership roles at Citigroup, PR Newswire, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. According to the release, Deaner had previously been co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council. The release says she holds a Computer Science bachelor's degree from Old Dominion University. Northwestern Mutual said she is a member of information security and technology societies including ISC2, the Society of Women Engineers, WiCyS and OWASP. The company also said she was serving on the board of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.