Matthew Lang

Executive Biography Information Security Leadership that enables the business, while reducing security risk for the company and raising the security posture for the enterprise.As an experienced executive of Information Security with a strategic mindset and tactical skillsets; Matthew Lang’s vision for every organization is to improve the security posture by implementing the right tools with the right people at the right time. As CISO for SECU, Matthew is responsible for setting strategic vision and goals for the full Information Security Program at SECU. Matthew consistently delivers cost effective results, using risk based decisions, by aligning technology initiatives with business goals focusing on information security. Using improvements to IT security standardization and system performance as foundational goals, he championed the following changes: • Cost saving initiatives at Bank of America saw a return on investment of 55 million annualized by reducing redundant insecure data exchanges with a secure data exchange, an excellent example of saving money while improving security posture in just a 5 month period. • With a strategic focus on annual budget he was able to reduce duplicate security systems at Belk saving an annualized 1.5 million in IT spend for information security with no impact to security readiness or risk. His ability to influence even at the Board level allowed for training of top executives on Information Security Incident Response showing them the importance of information security. He mentors and coaches individuals to push themselves out of their comfort zone and to perform at a higher level. As a Retired US Navy Chief after 22 years of active and reserve service he leads others by motivating them to buy into his vision and support his initiatives, showing how his vision can improve their product, or process while reducing risk and raising the security posture. Matthew’s career includes leadership roles at several large corporations in the Charlotte area. At 3D Systems he was the Global CISO for a 750 million cutting edge 3D printing company. At Belk he established the Risk Management program and hand selected the team. With Ally Bank he led data loss prevention and implemented major overhauls to processing, which reduced incident review times from 3 days to 3 hours. Matthew’s TIAA-CREF work reduced privileged level account reviews by over 50% and streamlined system processes to enable reviews to be done quarterly instead of annually with no impact to budget, system availability or degradation of service. Lastly, at Bank of America his major system improvements bulleted above impacted annual IT spend in the millions. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from East Carolina University as well as a Certified Information Systems Management (CISM), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Cisco Network Architect (CCNA). He also maintains memberships with CISO Executive Network, Infra-Gard, and ISACA. He previously sat as Chairman of the Belk Military Veterans Organization, a non-profit group dedicated to making Belk a military friendly company and reaches out to the local military families, with annual budget in excess of 15k. He served as Treasurer of the Chief Petty Officers Association, another non-profit group dedicated to United States Navy member’s active and reserve.