William B. Nelson
Bill Nelson is the Chair of the Global Resilience Federation[1] (GRF), a multi-sector non-profit association dedicated to helping ensure the resilience and continuity of organizations against cyber and physical threats, incidents and vulnerabilities. GRF is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.
Career
At GRF, Nelson has led the growth of information sharing communities that make up a network that shares threat, vulnerability and incident data within their respective sectors and on a cross-sector basis, resulting in detection, response and mitigation of those threats. GRF serves many sectors around the world including K12 school districts, manufacturing, law firms, retailers, utilities, operational technology, oil and gas, healthcare, and accounting/consulting firms.
Nelson founded and now serves on the board of the Operational Technology Information Sharing & Analysis Center (OT-ISAC). OT-ISAC is a Singapore-based nonprofit company with the mission to protect global operational technology assets of multiple sectors including maritime, energy, shipping, manufacturing, and others.
He also helped found the Business Resilience Council (BRC), a nonprofit company created to foster sharing and cooperation regarding significant incidents, threats and businesses that impact operations. The Operational Resilience Framework (ORF) Work Group of the BRC has developed a framework for the immutable recovery of data, systems, networks, devices, applications and configurations in response to a destructive event. LINK TO BRC AND ORF
Mr. Nelson launched the GRF Foundation in 2021. The Foundation operates exclusively for educational and charitable purposes to provide greater resiliency to organizations and enable proactive and effective response to growing threats.
Before joining GRF in 2019 as Chair and CEO, Nelson was the President and CEO of the Financial Services Information Sharing & Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) from 2006-2018. During his twelve years at FS-ISAC, he grew the membership from under 200 companies to over 7,000 organizations in 50 countries. As the head of FS-ISAC, he helped coordinate the financial services industry response to major cyber-attacks including account takeover, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), business email compromise, ransomware and destructive malware.
Under his leadership, FS-ISAC collaborated with Microsoft in the removal[2] of the Zeus botnet infrastructure. Nelson also founded GRF to help coordinate inter-sector threat sharing and later directed its spinoff from FS-ISAC. He would ultimately move from FS-ISAC to lead GRF in 2019.
Nelson was Executive Vice President of the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) from 1988 to 2006. In that role he led efforts to expand usage of direct deposit and development of new Automated Clearing House (ACH) applications. These new ACH services included its use for corporate-to-corporate disbursement, cash concentration, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic check conversion, cross-border and Internet payments.
In 1988, he authored the first direct deposit marketing plan to encourage banks and employers to offer and promote that service to consumers. In that year, direct deposit usage in the U.S. stood at only 10% of the workforce. By the time he left NACHA in 2006, direct deposit penetration had reached over 75% of the American workforce.
Prior to joining NACHA, Nelson held several treasury management and lending positions in the banking industry. While at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, he led the development of the first international direct deposit service between the United States and the United Kingdom. He also launched several new services for Mellon’s international department including multi-lateral USD netting, target balance cash concentration, online international balance and transaction reporting, and PC-based wire transfer initiation.
Nelson has served on multiple boards of directors and is a speaker on cybersecurity, information sharing[3], payments, risk management and business resilience[4]. He has also testified[5] on cyber threats and information sharing to both houses of the U.S. Congress. He has received awards including the RSA Award for Excellence[6] in Information Security, the NACHA Payments System Excellence Award, and the FS-ISAC Critical Infrastructure Protection Award.
Early Life and Education
Bill Nelson was born in Baltimore, MD and raised in York, Pennsylvania. He later graduated from Allegheny College with a B.A. degree. He is a Certified Cash Manager (CCM) and was previously an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP).
Nonprofit and Volunteer Work
Nelson currently serves as a volunteer in nonprofit companies including as Director of the Operational Technology ISAC, Chair of the Global Resilience Federation, and member of the Leadership Council of the National Small Business Association (NSBA). He has previously been on the board of Sheltered Harbor, a nonprofit subsidiary of FS-ISAC with the purpose of protecting customers, financial institutions and public confidence in the financial system in case of a catastrophic event. https://shelteredharbor.org/about
References
- ↑ "GRF". GRF. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ "Operation b71: Microsoft and Financial Industry Battle the Zeus Botnets". Stories. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ FS-ISAC APAC Intelligence Centre, retrieved 2022-01-18
- ↑ "Transaction Trends September 2010 by Content Communicators, LLC - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ "Cybersecurity and Financial Services Sector | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ "Bill Nelson, CEO Global Resilience Federation". RSAconference. Retrieved 2022. Unknown parameter
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