ViaWest Appoints Annalea Ilg As Chief Information Security Officer
December 15 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New position underscores ViaWest’s commitment
to enabling client success through security and compliance
Creating a new position to demonstrate its commitment to
security leadership, ViaWest has promoted Annalea Ilg to Vice
President and Chief Information Security Officer. With nearly 20
years of experience, Ilg is responsible for driving security and
compliant-enabled product development to better enable clients to
transform their IT infrastructure.
ViaWest delivers solutions and services to help companies ensure
their IT environment is secure, from design to disaster recovery.
Also, its solutions are purpose-built to be compliant-enabled to
assist companies with navigating regulation requirements and
demonstrating that their systems are protected.
“The CISO role is increasingly a public-facing, critical
position in the industry, and this new position further solidifies
ViaWest’s role in securing our clients and our own systems,” said
Nancy Phillips, President and CEO of ViaWest. “Annalea has built
our security practice over the past two years and we are pleased to
recognize her contributions as a key leader in the industry and our
organization through this promotion.”
Prior to this promotion, Ilg served as ViaWest’s Vice President
of Quality, Security and Compliance, Vice President of Solutions
Architecture and IT Security, and Technical Director of Security
Products. In those roles, she designed, managed and supported
secure and compliant cloud product solutions to help clients meet
regulations and protect themselves from security breaches.
Additionally, she was responsible for managing the internal IT and
security teams at ViaWest supporting 400 users, critical business
function services, infrastructure, redundancy, corporate services
and shared services. She also managed operational security teams,
supporting compliance products and corporate security
initiatives.
Before joining ViaWest, Ilg served as Director of Compliance and
Security at CoSentry. She has also held senior IT positions at
Central States Indemnity Co. of Omaha, Midlands Newspapers, Inc.
and St. Francis Hospital of Georgia. She is a Certified Information
Systems Security Professional and an Associate Member of the
Business Continuity Institute.
Ilg recently was re-elected president of the Omaha and Lincoln,
Nebr., Security Chapter for (ISC)2. She founded the chapter in 2012
and served as president for the first two years. The chapter now
has over 250 members.
“I’ve been passionate about solving technical problems while
balancing security and compliance since the beginning of my
career,” explained Ilg. “As CISO, I look forward to increasing
ViaWest’s support for clients seeking secure and compliant
solutions and consulting expertise.”
About ViaWestViaWest is a leading Hybrid IT Solutions
provider offering cloud, colocation, compliance services and
security solutions, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shaw
Communications Inc. (NYSE: SJR). With more than 17 years of
experience, 30 North American data centers and multiple cloud
nodes, ViaWest offers IT and infrastructure solutions that solve
business challenges while balancing cost, scalability and security
requirements. ViaWest delivers tailored solutions designed for
maximum reliability and flexibility backed by our 100% uptime
commitment.
For additional information on ViaWest, please
visit www.viawest.com or call 877-448-9378. Follow ViaWest on
LinkedIn and Twitter.
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ViaWest PRDawn Small, 720-891-2543dawn.small@viawest.comorfama
PR for ViaWestKate Thermansen, 617-986-5006viawest@famapr.com
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