CSO Compass Leadership

CSO Compass was started by three experienced Business, Software and Operations executives. Together we've managed such diverse groups as Prodcut Management, Project Management Software Development, Quality Assurance, Operations and Security for a number of companies. Our Principals bring this experience to your company as part of every conversation we have.

Mike Jordan

Mike

Mike Jordan has spent decades working with the latest cutting-edge technology in a number of fields. He most recently managed educational software product development at seven sites for Cengage Learning, introducing the Scrum framework and agile development practices as well as structured security methods. These Cengage SaaS products included homework, assessment, outcomes management and reference material applications for higher education. Mike has managed software development, documentation, QA, testing, SaaS operations and security at a number of companies in such diverse fields as SaaS (Cengage Learning and PlaceWare), game systems (3DO), high-performance systems (Ridge Computers) and embedded systems (Network Computing Devices).

Mike has provided security expertise for companies ranging from large financial services companies to online game startups. These reviews have dealt with topics including security architecture, risk analysis, code review and third-party suppliers. Mike has held the position of CISO for a major SaaS company. His SaaS and Security experience has included Forensics, Incident Response and Security Planning.

Mike is a Certified Information Security Manager (CSIM) and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Mike is a current member of the Scrum Alliance, IEEE Computer Society, ISACA (Silicon Valley Chapter), OWASP, ISSA and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). You can find out more about Mike at LinkedIn or on the Multicians web site. He graduated from Arizona State University with a BSEE degree.

Jeff Rudy

Jeff

Jeff Rudy has held a number of Executive positions in software development and product management for SaaS based collaborative applications and software development tools. His SaaS based experience includes leading the IT effort for large scale deployments of HR based applications to a broad range of Fortune 500 clients in Financial Services, Consulting, and consumer products. In development tools Jeff has led the development and release of industry leading award winning SOA based security tools used by major financial service customers. He also led the efforts for the first versions of Borland's leading Java Development environment Jbuilder and enterprise tools including Delphi Enterprise.

Jeff has developed Security policies and procedures to meet the requirements of both startup organizations as well as major public companies. These policies cover all levels of security including network, data, and physical security as well as disaster recovery planning.

Jeff is a member of InfraGard which is an FBI and private sector alliance to promote protection of critical information systems and provides channels for the exchange of information about threats and vulnerabilities.

Jeff holds the CISM certification (Certified Information Security Manager) and is a member of the ISACA (Silicon Valley Chapter,) and the IEEE Computer Society. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Math and Computer Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School Of Management.