Chris Leach is responsible for overseeing the development and execution of ACS’ policies protecting the private and personal information of the company’s clients, employees and business partners, as well as security operations and monitoring for ACS’ global infrastructure.

Prior to joining ACS, Leach served as senior vice president and chief information security officer for First Horizon National Corp. There, he implemented a security strategy for the company’s 500 branch banks in more than 43 states. Also, Leach served as senior vice president and chief technology officer, IT risk management for Bank One Corporation. Following JPMorgan Chase’s acquisition of Bank One in 2004, Leach became senior vice president and director of global security operations and identity management, where he was responsible for identity initia-tives for 170,000 employees and contractors and more than 20,000 business partners.

The author of several articles for both accounting and information security-related publications, Leach has conducted seminars and served as a keynote speaker at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference as well as at the 2008 RSA Conference.  He was also recognized twice by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting profession.  Leach has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University, where he also undertook postgraduate studies in information technology.

Improving Data Security Standards in a Rapidly Chang-ing Business Environment
Industry trends and issues that Leach can discuss related to improving information security include:

• The need to develop business policies and procedures to protect client  identity records;
• How to prevent data breaches from phishing, lost or stolen systems, file transfers, etc.;
• Navigating data security standards in the midst of stricter government regulations;
• Increasing training and awareness of information security and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, as well as encryption strategy.

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For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:

Kevin Lightfoot
Vice President
Corporate Communications
214-841-8191
kevin.lightfoot@acs-inc.com