Aurobindo 'Robin' Sundaram
Vice President, Information Security
ChoicePoint Inc.

Aurobindo 'Robin' Sundaram is the VP of Information Security at ChoicePoint, Inc. In this role, he has responsibility for creating business continuity, security, and risk management policies, procedures, and standards; co-ordinating with operations to implement these policies; and measuring and ensuring compliance with the company's information security framework. Mr Sundaram is on the company's executive steering committee for information security governance, and the chair of the Security Working Group, a cross-functional group of security operations managers.

Prior to joining ChoicePoint, Mr Sundaram spent 6 1/2 years at Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services corporation, where he helped initiate their Information Security program, resulting in the team growing by a factor 4 during his tenure there. In addition, during his tenure, for the first time, company (and board reported) objectives were set for information security across the 50,000+ strong organization. He was also closely involved in the design of the technical security architecture for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Mr Sundaram's vision and thought leadership have led to several published papers in the security field, and ChoicePoint's Information Security program has been recognized by many, including Gartner, to be a 'role model' for other companies. Mr Sundaram volunteers his time to the ISSA Metro Atlanta as their Vice President, was the Executive Sponsor of the 2007 Habitat for Humanity program for ChoicePoint, and regularly speaks to graduating IT professionals on information security.

Mr Sundaram holds an MS from Purdue University (where he was one of the first students in the COAST [now CERIAS] information security research laboratory working under Eugene Spafford), and received an MBA from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University. He also holds several information security certifications, including the CISSP, CISA, and CISM.