Compliance Experts: The Compliance Authority

The Compliance Authority strives to deliver vendor-neutral insights, perspectives, and best practices in the compliance management marketspace.

We are assembling a group of leading experts and practitioners in the field:

Sanjay Anand is chairman of the SOX Institute and is known as a global expert on Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance with 20 years of deep experience as a strategic advisor, certified consultant, professional speaker and published author in Business Process Management, Project Risk Management, Business and Technology Audits, and Enterprise Technologies. He has been personally involved in scores of business and technology audits and over a hundred workshops and training sessions in the past decade. His clients include over a hundred companies, many of them Fortune 100 and Global 2000, from over a dozen different industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, distribution and utilities, across Asia, Europe and the Americas. He is the recipient of such awards as the J.D. Edwards Worldwide Consultant of the Year, Northeast Area Special Achievement, Global Enterprise Solutions Outstanding Performance, and Client Services Valuable Teamwork. He is often referred to as the "Consultant's Consultant" for his training, leadership and mentoring skills. Sanjay is also the author of numerous articles for such magazines as Data Quest and Information Week, and of books like "The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals" (John Wiley) and "Implementing J.D. Edwards: Beginner's Guide" (McGraw-Hill). He is also a Founding Member of the NASBA (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) Centre for Public Trust and a thought leader on The Advisory Council (TAC), the CXO Council, and the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG). Sanjay is also a member of the CEO Roundtable of the SOX Compliance Journal.

Robert Ayoub is an Industry Manger with the Frost & Sullivan North America Information and Communication Technologies Practice. He focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the Network Security Markets Worldwide. Since joining Frost & Sullivan in June, 2005, Mr. Ayoub has completed several research studies and consulting projects on Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Security Event Correlations (SIM, SEM, etc) systems, IT Policy and Compliance, Video Conferencing Security and Network Access Control systems. Mr. Ayoub has received acclaim for his research through articles and quotes published in SC Magazine, Newsfactor, Processor and many others. He is an active member in the security community, serving on the board of the Alamo ISSA chapter and the Texas Regional Information Security Conference (TRISC). Mr. Ayoub teaches courses at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX.

Victor N. Berlin, Ph.D., is the founding president of the University of Fairfax. At Anteon Corporation, Dr. Berlin launched and directed the Center for IT Education where he forged academic alliances with established graduate and undergraduate institutions. Dr. Berlin served as founding president of Potomac College, which became accredited under his guidance. He has held management positions at NIST and Anteon Corporation and served on the faculties at Boston College and Keller Graduate School of Management. Dr. Berlin earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science at Northwestern University and his B.A. from Cornell University.

Caroline R. Hamilton is an expert in security risk analysis and assessment. She is the President of RiskWatch, Inc., a company specializing in security risk assessment software. She was a charter member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Risk Management Model Builders workshop, which was a joint Workshop between U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom to create the first security risk management guidelines from 1988 - 1995. In 1996, she served on the U.S. National Security Agency's Network Rating Model workshop; and from 1996-1998, served on the working group to create a Defensive Information Warfare Risk Management Model for the U.S. Department of Defense, under the auspices of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Hamilton has been working in a variety of industries to develop automated security risk assessment models and programs, including healthcare, energy, financial and nuclear markets and the maritime and defense industries. Hamilton has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to create security vulnerability assessment guidelines for the U.S. Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection initiatives and risk related to Critical Infrastructure Protection.
She is currently developing custom risk assessment models for the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions, and the DOD Technical Support Working Group. She is a member of the IBM Data Governance Council, and the ASIS Information Security and Technology Council. She is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside and lives near Annapolis, Maryland.

Dr. David Taylor, CISSP, formed the PCI Alliance December 2006 as a vehicle to help map the PCI security standards for the security and privacy market sectors in order to improve the clarity and process of selecting PCI related solutions. Currently, there are nearly 50 members in this group.
In late 2007, Dave created the PCI Alliance's Research Program and launched the PCI Knowledge Base, as a searchable, interactive research community to improve the sharing of information about PCI Compliance among merchants, PCI assessors, banks, service providers and IT vendors.
Prior to launching the PCI Alliance Research Program and the PCI Knowledge Base, Dave created and was the VP of Data Security Strategies for software vendor Protegrity. In addition to providing PCI compliance consulting to Level 1 and 2 merchants, Dave was VP of Corporate Development.
Before joining Protegrity, Dave co-founded and was Chief Research Officer of The Info Pro, an IT research firm in New York City. Prior to TIP, Dave spent 14 years with Gartner, where he was Group VP, and where he created and managed Gartner's Applications Group and Electronic Commerce Strategies service. Prior to Gartner, Dave was a group product manager and software development manager at AT&T and Bell Labs.
Dave holds a CISSP credential and has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Purdue University and an MBA from NY University. Dave co-authored the book Doing E-Business, published by John Wiley & Sons in December 2000.

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