DoGood Member Spotlight: Bradley Schaufenbuel
Professional Bio:
Bradley J. Schaufenbuel is currently Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Paychex. He has over 28 years of information security experience, the last 19 in leadership roles, at companies within the financial services and technology industries.
Bradley has authored multiple books and professional journal articles about information security and IT governance. He is a licensed attorney and a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar. Bradley holds twenty-five professional designations in the areas of information security management, IT compliance, information privacy, fraud examination, IT audit, computer forensics, ethical hacking, business continuity planning, project management, cloud security, and process improvement.
He holds an MBA from DePaul University and a JD and an LLM in information technology and privacy law from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s John Marhsall Law School.
Bradley has served as a director on several boards, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is regularly quoted by the press, and has served numerous clients as a freelance consultant. He was named the Chicago CISO of the Year in 2018 and as one of the Top 100 CISOs for 2023 by Cyber Defense Magazine.
Company Name & Description:
Paychex, Inc. – Human capital management software and services
Company Website:
Year Founded:
1971
Headquarters:
Rochester, NY
Primary Areas of Focus:
Information Security
Current Projects/Initiatives:
A project to integrate an acquisition (we are buying a $4.1 billion competitor), a project to improve our cyber resiliency, and a project to implement a zero trust architecture, to name a few.
Quote (on a key industry trend or initiative you're passionate about):
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
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