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Debra Baker
Debra Baker
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Debra Baker

Debra Baker has 30 years of experience in Information Security. As CEO of TrustedCISO, Debra provides strategic cybersecurity CISO Advisory Services. She has an AI first startup aiming to power through the pain of Third Party Vendor Assessment and Compliance. Previously, Debra was CISO at RedSeal where she led the security program successfully getting SOC2 Type 2. Previously, she served as Regulatory Compliance Manager at Cisco. While at Cisco she founded the cryptographic knowledge base, CryptoDoneRight in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Debra was named one of the top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, "Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."
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What is PII? It depends…

PII is personally identifiable information. In a nutshell, it is information that identifies a person. This can be information alone that maps back to you, such as your Social Security Number (SSN). This is called direct PII because only one person can have a specific SSN. To make it more confusing, the privacy community now refers to this data as personal information (PI). NIST and the cybersecurity community still use PII to refer to personal information. You need to work very closely with the Legal and Compliance departments. They should be the ones formally defining PII. Before we go on, I need to add a legal disclaimer that when classifying your data, a consultation with a privacy professional is recommended. Depending on the type of data, the location of a company’s headquarters, and where

the data is stored (that is, in which country), the definition of PII may change. For example, if the data is stored in Germany, then the definition...

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Debra Baker

Debra Baker has 30 years of experience in Information Security. As CEO of TrustedCISO, Debra provides strategic cybersecurity CISO Advisory Services. She has an AI first startup aiming to power through the pain of Third Party Vendor Assessment and Compliance. Previously, Debra was CISO at RedSeal where she led the security program successfully getting SOC2 Type 2. Previously, she served as Regulatory Compliance Manager at Cisco. While at Cisco she founded the cryptographic knowledge base, CryptoDoneRight in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Debra was named one of the top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, "Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."
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