Larry D. Johnson
Senior Vice President
Among the ranks of this nation’s leading security professionals, Larry D. Johnson is one of the few with an exceptional record of leadership experience in both the public and private sectors.
From 2006 to 2009, Johnson served as the Chief Security Officer for Genworth Financial, a Fortune 250 company with multiple lines of business, 7,000 employees and more than $110 billion in assets worldwide. During his tenure at Genworth, Johnson designed and implemented the company’s first global security strategy to protect its assets, people and operations across all 26 countries in which it conducts business. Embedding best practices, standards and security policies throughout the organization, Johnson established and led the company’s IT Information Security Council, Fraud Management Council, Security Breach Incident Response Team, Supplier Risk Management Team and Penetration Testing Teams, as well as the Regulatory Teams tasked with ensuring compliance with legislative requirements ranging from HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley to PCI (Payment Card Industry) Acts. In addition to these areas, Johnson held responsibility for the company’s integrated worldwide approach to business continuity, crisis management, emergency preparedness, security awareness as well as executive protection and intelligence.
One of the many hallmarks that distinguished Johnson’s contributions to Genworth Financial as a senior executive was his introduction to the company’s Board of Directors of the firm’s first comprehensive “annual report” on its state of security. Another was his success in developing and presenting a strategic business case rationale to the CEO and company leadership on the need to subject all security business units to a unique return-on-security investment metric and philosophy.
Earlier in his career, Johnson served for more than two decades as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent where he directed the agency’s investigations into criminal activity, identity theft, credit card fraud, cyber/electronic intrusion crimes and the worldwide counterfeiting of U.S. obligations as well as oversaw table-top exercises, forensic discovery and the performance of 28 domestic electronic crimes task force teams.
In this capacity, he played a key role in the largest U.S./international cyber criminal investigation in history; initiated the TJX investigation that led to the largest identity theft investigation and indictments in U.S. history; conducted interviews with media organizations such as CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and CSO magazine; delivered keynote speeches at leading cyber security conferences; and provided testimony and expert counsel to Congressional committees and subcommittees on identity theft and information security. Johnson also served as the Presidential Protection Division (PPD) supervisor-in-charge of security operations involving the U.S. President. This involved supervising all PPD agents as well as day-to-day White House operational security.
Johnson’s years of service have led to many awards, including the September 11, 2001 President’s Distinguished Service Award, recognition as an inaugural member of the ASIS International CSO Roundtable and eight U.S. Secret Service Special Achievement awards. Johnson is a former credit card investigator “Law Enforcement Officer of the Year”; a certified U.S. Secret Service Network Intrusion Investigator; and a member of ASIS, the Financial Sector Information Sharing and Accountability Center (FS-ISAC), the BITS Fraud and Security steering committees at the Financial Services Roundtable, the Overseas Security Advisory Council, the Information Security Network, the Executive Protection Network, the Financial Crime Risk and Security Group as well as the Security Leaders Working Group. He holds a Top Secret Security Clearance.
