Joselyn Stewart, Former ISO for WellStar, Joins Vigilar

Stewart Brings to Vigilar More than 25 Years of Compliance and Enterprise-Wide Information Security Expertise

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 22, 2005 -- Vigilar, Inc., the leading information security consulting firm, today announced that Joselyn Stewart has joined the Company as a Compliance Practice Manager. Ms. Stewart has spent the majority of her 25-year career developing and implementing compliance action plans and enterprise-wide security policies for organizations in the healthcare and financial services industries. Vigilar will leverage Ms. Stewarts real world expertise to enhance its compliance and assessment services division.

For the past nine years, Ms. Stewart was with WellStar Health Systems, an Atlanta-based not-for-profit health care provider. As WellStars Information Security Officer, she was responsible for creating and executing the companys strategies for network security, incident response, risk management, threat and vulnerability management, forensics, compliance and assessment oversight, and employee security training. In this position, she created and maintained an enterprise-wide information security policy and gained valuable, first-hand experience preparing the company for several audits, including GLB and HIPAA. During her tenure, Ms. Stewart also held positions as WellStars network security administrator, project leader, IS liaison and IS support manager.

Prior to WellStar and over a span of 16 years, Ms. Stewart was responsible for training, developing policies and procedures, and re-engineering business work flow and processes for the Life Insurance Company of Georgia, a $295 million life insurance company existing under the parent company INC US Financial Services.

We pride ourselves on the vast security industry knowledge acquired by years of real world experience that our consultants bring to the table, which enables us to deliver immense service value to our clients," said Palaniswamy (Raj) Rajan, Vigilars President and CEO. Joselyns security knowledge and expertise is all-encompassing and exists on all levels of an organization -- from the c-level to the support and business levels, down through the network, to the edge and beyond. She knows first hand what our clients needs are and how to remediate them. We look forward to leveraging Ms. Stewarts knowledge in support of our clients security, compliance and assessment objectives."

Ms. Stewart holds and MBS from West Georgia University.

About Vigilar

Since its inception in 2000, Atlanta-based Vigilar, the leading information security consulting firm, has focused solely on establishing organization-wide optimal security postures for its clients. Vigilars security expertise is all-encompassing and includes regulatory compliance services, risk assessments, IT security audits, managed security services, security architecture design, product selection and delivery, implementation services, technical support and training. Vigilar partners with more than 90 leading security technology innovators to meet the diverse needs of its client base, which numbers in the thousands and spans a broad range of industries. To learn more about Vigilar, visit www.vigilar.com.

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