Ken Mortensen, Data Protection Officer at InterSystems

What are the Priorities for Data Protection and Privacy Officers in 2020?

Data Protection Officer at InterSystems

As an attorney and engineer, Ken Mortensen is a privacy and security professional with over 20 years of legal and over 30 years of IT experience. Ken leads Global Trust at InterSystems as the Data Protection Officer, working to enhance transparency, accountability, and governance. Ken also served in a number of chief privacy/security roles including in the Bush Administration as Associate Deputy AG for Privacy and Civil Liberties at DOJ supporting law enforcement and foreign intelligence activities. Ken joined DHS early in its existence, becoming its first Deputy CPO. He had his own law firm, was special counsel to the PA AG for cyber, ran a technology business, taught at Villanova Law, and began as a EE. He served on the boards of IAPP, HITRUST, NH-ISAC, and Shared Assessments. Ken is the privacy expert to TSA’s Aviation Security Advisory Committee. He maintains CIPP/US, CIPP/G, and CIPM; PA, NJ, SCOTUS bars

Image of business executive walking up stairs representing steps for security experts to gain privacy perspective, from CISO to CPO

Cyber Security Insights

CISO to CPO: Four Steps for Security Experts to Get a Privacy Perceptive

January 2, 2018

It’s not all about the safeguards and technical measures around information. Savvy security experts need to understand privacy and how it interacts with the security world and what privacy means for an organization’s security strategy and compliance with things like HIPAA, GDPR, CBPR, etc. Read More

Image of man jumping over a crevice against moutain backdrop signifying how privacy professionals and CPO needs to bridge the gap and become security savvy as a CISO

Data Protection Insights

CPO to CISO: Four Steps for Privacy Professionals to Get Security Savvy

October 30, 2017

As more CPOs need to interact with security, they need the right skills to integrate security into the privacy strategy and compliance with regulations. Read More