Christopher Olsen

Chris Olsen oversees ADP’s GSO worldwide cyber security strategy, execution, and response. This includes shared services for architecture, development, engineering, and operations of next generation converged security solutions that enable the GSO, IT, and Business areas to detect, prevent, and respond to various business, cyber, fraud, and physical security threats accordingly.

Key responsibilities include coordinating the adoption and implementation of information security standards and controls to minimize risk of compromise to ADP infrastructure and reputation. Chris is responsible for working across the organization’s geographically dispersed businesses operations, development, and infrastructure teams to drive security awareness, adoption, remediation, and/or risk reduction to mitigate emerging threats and address on going vulnerabilities impacting ADP’s products, infrastructure, and services globally.

Additionally, Threat Intel, Security Data Sciences, and Incident response services operate on a 24x7x365 schedule to provide, not only cyber incident response, but support for all security converged areas as well.

Prior to joining ADP, Chris was the Vice President of Product Management for StealthBits, Inc. managing the companies’ security product roadmap, innovation, and development teams. He spent many years’ prior architecting, engineering, and managing infrastructure, messaging, and security services at Merck & Co., Inc. He began his IT career with several positions within the Government, Education, and his own consulting company.

Chris holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from West Chester University and a master’s degree in Information Science from Penn State University. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).