Crystal Gcih Rice

Manager, CyberSecurity Logistics at Nelnet

Because IT security is everyone's business, I've spent the better portion of the last eight years developing and using my skills as an information security expert. These skills were learned through professional and on-the-job training with the EC-Council, SANS Institute, and others to obtain a Masters of Science-Information Technology and certifications including: "Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv7)" and "GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)"​. I like to consider myself a corporate information security chiropractor--finding ways to align the needs of the business and end-user with the responsibility to secure information in an increasingly mobile-centric and data-centric global business environment. I am an Information Security and Assurance professional with complementary skills including: incident response; ethical hacking; public speaking; training; technical writing; leadership; Lean Six Sigma, supervisory experience and budget management; experience with managing projects up to $1.5 million; experience with process analysis, development, improvement, and streamlining; as well as a firm understanding of the vulnerabilities that exist in systems as a result of the inability to apply security patches to the human members of those systems.