Doug Grindstaff

Senior Vice President Cybersecurity Solutions
CMMI Institute

E. Douglas Grindstaff II is a successful executive with an deep experience in the Bio Tech and High Tech industries. Grindstaff has held several Senior Executive and Board positions, in addition to his current role as Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity Solutions with the CMMI Institute, he previously served as CEO of NuSirt Sciences, CEO-in- Residence for Carnegie Innovations Portfolio and President of the Invisible Fence brand. Prior to that, he served as Chairman and President of Bioganic Biopesticide, where he oversaw rapid expansion into the retail marketplace, as well as the acquisition by a well-known consumer brands company. Grindstaff also served as an executive for a number of private and public consumer brand companies, including Kraft Foods, Inc.

Day Two: Thursday, August 22, 2019

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

12:25 PM CMMI® Institute: Building Resilience Through a Risk-Based ‘Cybermaturity’ Approach

The CMMI Institute interviewed CISOs/CSOs seeking

to identify common themes in the challenges organizations are facing and the best thinking in solving those challenges. Recognizing the need to

provide a holistic solution that seeks to align

pragmatic insights with business objectives, the

CMMI Institute built a risk-based capability maturity platform. The platform is an enterprise platform that

can support organization of varying complexity and

security demands while providing a clear

understanding of the priorities an organization should attack first.

Key Takeaways:

Understand the challenges global

organizations are facing and how leading

organizations are solving

Understand a risk-based approach for

prioritizing investment for organizations

with varying complexity and security

demands

Understand the CMMI Institute’s holistic

approach of assessing the maturity of an

organization’s security capability maturity