Tammy L. Clark

Tammy Clark is the Chief Information Security Officer at Georgia State University, a sprawling urban campus serving over 40,000 students, staff and faculty in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. She joined Georgia State in 2000 with the initial charge to start from "ground zero" in creating an information security program. She has developed a full range of security initiatives such as an information security taskforce, policies and procedures, incident response programs, regulatory compliance programs and audits, departmental security reviews and awareness programs, and the 'secure computing initiative,' a holistic approach to protecting sensitive and confidential data.
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Additionally, she collaborated in developing a comprehensive, risk management based campus security plan around the ISO 27002 (formerly ISO 17799) framework, and successfully completed an initiative to get two areas of the University certified under ISO 27001. Through the implementation of information security governance, a paradigm shift from being viewed as a part of the information technology organization has resulted and her department is embraced as a business enabler, partner of internal audit, and the executive management levels at the University are working with her organization to improve their business processes and controls.
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Tammy is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Holistic Information Security Practitioner (HISP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a certified Information Security Management Systems Auditor (ISO 27001), Information Technology infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations certified, and has dual Bachelor's degrees in MIS and Accounting from Cal State University, San Bernardino, California.