Charisse Castagnoli

Charisse Castagnoli has over 27 years of experience in the information technology industry, focusing on issues of information security, technology and law. With an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, Castagnoli combines her technology expertise with security and legal skills to help organizations meet their security and compliance needs. She is currently with Websense, Inc. in the Office of the CISO. She formerly worked for Dell Computers, Internet Security Systems (now IBM), Haystack Labs (now McAfee), SecureWare (now HP) and others. She is a frequent speaker at legal and privacy conferences on the issues of computer security and the law, and an adjunct professor of law at the John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. She has also acted as an expert witness in ACH/Wire Fraud account takeover cases.