Alain Richoux, CISSP, CISA
http://be.linkedin.com/in/alainrichoux | http://www.richoux.eu

A seasoned, trilingual Manager of Information Risk functions, with a strong focus on results.

Professional Objective

  • Manager of a small to medium sized team in Information Security, Risk management or IT, preferably in the Financial sector.

Career Highlights

  • IT Technical expertise: Former positions as a mainframe Operating System developer and network analyst. I maintained a solid technical background that allows me to manage technical teams without being blind-sighted.
  • IT Audit, Risk and Security expertise: 25 years experience in the Financial Sector, in complex and politically sensitive organizations.
  • Managerial expertise: 20 years of experience as a manager and middle manager of security and Risk teams. Daily contact at all levels of management.

Professional Experience

Degroof-Petercam: Group CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) since Jun 2017
  • Definition and implementation of the Information Security Policies of the Group Degroof-Petercam.
  • Liaison with and oversight of the local entities.
  • Continuous assessment and monitoring of risks and definition of remediations.
  • Design and conduct of a group-wide awareness program.
  • Definition and management of security projects.
ING Belgium: Head of Information Risk Management, Retail and Commercial Banking Oct 2013 - Jun 2017
  • Independent assessment of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability requirements of ING Belgium Retail and Commercial Banking business services.
  • Independent assessment of IT risks in business projects.
  • Monitoring and Reporting on IT and non-IT risks of Retail and Commercial Banking value chains.
ING Belgium: Head of Information Risk Management, Retail Jun 2012 to Oct 2013
  • Independent assessment of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability requirements of ING Belgium Retail business services.
  • Independent assessment of IT risks in business projects.
  • Monitoring and Reporting on IT and non-IT risks of the Retail value chains.
MasterCard Worldwide, USA: Senior Business Leader, Information Security Operations Oct 2010 - Mar 2012
  • Enforcement of information and data security policies: Clear Desk, Data Leakage Prevention, Identity Management, Awareness and Education. Providing internal customers with expertise in Internal Control. Information Security Helpdesk.
  • Monitoring of and timely reaction to security events. Management and oversight of third party vendors and security providers.
  • Administration and set-up of the technical tools used for security monitoring (IDS/IPS, database monitoring system, internal and external vulnerability scanners, etc.) Handling level 2 and 3 escalation and providing response to identified security incidents. Penetration testing of internal and externally hosted application. Security Intelligence gathering and reporting.
MasterCard Worldwide, Belgium: Business Leader and Senior Business Leader, Information Security Nov 2002 - Sep 2010
  • Following activities managed for Europe and outsourced IT Operations and Development centre in India (650+ FTEs): Awareness and Education, Host and Network Security Engineering, Detection and Response including forensic investigations, Identity Management, localization of the various Global Security Policies and Standards, Audit and Control of MasterCard vendors or third party companies in the context of M&A (Security Due Diligence process), etc.
  • Issuance of MasterCard specific security standards and management of related compliance programs, with respect of payment product manufacturers.
  • Design, issuance and maintenance of several PCI security standards, under the umbrella of PCI-PED (PIN Entry Devices).
  • Assessment of risks in projects and daily activities in order to define appropriate mitigations.
MasterCard Worldwide, Belgium: Senior IT Auditor Mar 2000 - Nov 2002
  • Audit of the software development process using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
  • Audit of Research and Development of new products and technologies.
  • Ongoing compliance audit of the EMV Certificate Authority.
  • And many others !
MasterCard Worldwide, Belgium: Senior IMS analyst May 1998 - Mar 2000
  • Implementation of tools and procedures based on the ITIL framework, to support configuration management, change management, incident management and problem management for 24x7 operations at MasterCard Europe.
BNP Paribas Fortis, Belgium: IT auditor Dec 1990 - Apr 1998
  • Audit of the mainframe Production department, audit follow-up of the implementation project of Windows-NT, IT Audit of the subsidiaries, Due-diligence and M&A.
  • Development and implementation of IT audit training program for fellow auditors in the department.
Siemens Software, Belgium: System analyst Sep 1989 - Dec 1990
  • Graphical interfaces were in their infancy in 1990. I joined a team that was in charge of a project that intended to create a graphical interface for the BS2000 mainframe OS. This project involved among others the design of a complete C++ class library (the equivalent to what Microsoft later called MFC).
TRT-CTI, FR: Intern Aug 1988 - Jan 1989
  • Study and development of cryptographic algorithms (DES, RSA). Study of smart card functionality and study of tamper-resistant security modules for PC.

Education & Training

CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) 2012
   
Training suite "Management Excellence" 2008

Training organized by MasterCard for Hi-Po candidates

   
CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) 1996
   
Master in Information Technology 1984-1989

University Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur: Candidatures in Economics; Master in Information Technology. This cursus is equivalent to a Master of Science (second cycle) in terms of the Bologne agreements.

Languages

French : Native Language ; Dutch: Fluent (spoken) ; English: Fluent (written and spoken) ; German: Basic

IT knowledge

  • OS: windows, Unix OS (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX).
  • DB: Oracle, MySQL.
  • Programming: C, C++, PL/SQL, Shell scripting, awk, sed, Pascal, Cobol.
  • Security: IEEE 802.11 security, network security, security policies, ISO2700x, ISAE3402, PCI-DSS, PCI-PTS TCP/IP, SSH.
  • Control frameworks: COBIT, COSO, CIS-20, NIST, ISO27001 ...
  • Productivity: MS Office (Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint), Openoffice & Libreoffice suites.

Other Information

  • Born May 25, 1966 | Married, 2 children | Belgian citizen