Ward Spangenberg
Director of Security Operations, Zynga Game Network
Director of Security Operations, Zynga Game Network
Ward Spangenberg currently serves as the Director of Security Operations at Zynga, a company devoted to connecting the world through social games. Spangenberg’s role focuses on insuring that Zynga's Security Response practice is best in breed for the industry. His familiarity with NIST 800, COBIT, ISO 17799, PCI DSS and HIPAA requirements, and their application to both enterprise and service providers helped establish him as an industry expert. His broad experience in government, telecomm, software, and financial services industries enables him to determine best practices for managing confidentiality, security & privacy issues from both a business perspective (process development, informed consent, data statistics collection) & a technical perspective (host & perimeter security, access control & monitoring).