Executive record
Laura Deaner
Career profile: Laura Deaner on CISO Spotlights ↗
Laura Deaner is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The appointment was announced in the week of June 2, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: CISO at Northwestern Mutual, per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Laura Deaner, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-06-02) ↗ · Move record
Before June 2025· Earlier role
CISO at Northwestern Mutual
Named in the announcement of the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-06-02) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of June 2, 2025 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-06-02) ↗ · Move record
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.
The company: Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC): 1 confirmed move on the record
In their own words
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Elsewhere
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Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Financial Services whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Laura Deaner's, nearest first. The Financial Services bench
Azeem Bashir, Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Apex Group
Robert Thomas, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Relm Insurance
Jeremy Koppen, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Equifax
Jim Hart, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Paymentology
Amit Spitzer, CTO and CISO at Glilot Capital Partners
Phillip Miller, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at H&R Block
Clay Carter, Chief Information Security Officer at Ncontracts
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 5 months since the appointment was announced (week of June 2, 2025), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 26, 2026
- Financial Services in 2026
- 42 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Laura Deaner
- Who is the CISO of Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)?
- Laura Deaner is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The appointment was announced in the week of June 2, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Laura Deaner become CISO of Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)?
- The appointment was announced in the week of June 2, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Laura Deaner work before Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC)?
- Before the appointment, Laura Deaner was CISO at Northwestern Mutual, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-06-02) ↗: the appointment at Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC), week of June 2, 2025
- 2.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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