Derek Boczenowski

Derek Boczenowski

Derek Boczenowski, MBA, CISA, CISM, QSA, CMMC CCP, is a nationally recognized information security and compliance authority with over 20 years of experience across financial services, higher education, and government. As Chief Architect at Compass IT Compliance, he helps organizations identify security gaps and build practical, risk-based strategies to address them. Before joining Compass, Derek served as VP of Technology for a Massachusetts-based credit union with ~$700M in assets, giving him firsthand insight into the regulatory pressures financial institutions face daily. That perspective now informs his work with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to community banks. A sought-after speaker, Derek has presented at the Fiserv National Conference, the New York Bankers Association, and events nationwide. His expertise spans PCI DSS, SOC 2, CMMC, data privacy, and vendor risk management. He also writes extensively on emerging compliance issues and frequently presents through ISACA webinars.

Posts by Derek Boczenowski

Top 5 vCISO Takeaways of 2019

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As the end of the year rapidly approaches, everyone does their best to reflect upon the prior year (or decade, since it is the end of one of those as well) and see what they might have learned from the past year. What were the top songs, top movies, and top vacation destinations, just …

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Securing Your Cloud Environment – Who is Responsible?

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The speed at which technology progresses is truly staggering. I am old enough to remember having to load 9-track magnetic tapes to install a patch, and marveled at the lightning fast 384k connection for an entire organization, thinking we had finally made the big time.

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Cybersecurity - Back to Basics

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Welcome to summer in New England! Or close to it at any rate. Today I would like to talk about a slightly different topic than usual on these blogs. For those of you that have read past entries, you know they are full of good advice on not many different compliance issues.

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Updates to MA 201 CMR 17 Data Breach Law

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The Laws, they are a’ changin’… …to paraphrase Bob Dylan. And I’m speaking about privacy and breach laws. It would seem that every other day we hear of another set of customer data being compromised at another company. It could be just name and address, but it could be phone number, S …

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Why a Risk Assessment is the Beginning of Security, Not the End!

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In the past several weeks, the news has been filled with multiple compromises and hacks. Panera Bread, Delta, and Under Armor just to name a few. One of the ones that has had the most impact is the ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta.

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Online Banking for Businesses – How to protect yourself

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One of the biggest areas that we see attacks on is the business online banking customer. There has been a marked increase in trying to compromise these accounts, primarily to abscond with the funds within the accounts, but also to execute identity theft as well. Many of these attacks …

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