Bob Varnadoe is Chief Information Security Officer for NCR Corporation. His duties include overall information security and operational/IT aspects of NCR’s privacy program, IT risk management and compliance company-wide, training and awareness for information security, and oversight of the deployment of security technologies. He is also responsible for physical security, executive security, and crisis management. Bob works with IT, NCR’s lines of business, Professional Services, Legal, Internal Audit, Customer Services and HW/SW Engineering to develop and build out our company-wide strategy for information and physical security.

Prior to NCR, Bob was with Fiserv Corporation where he was responsible for information security within Fiserv’s corporate risk organization. His team was responsible for information security oversight, governance, and strategy across Fiserv’s business units. The team also provided consulting to Fiserv’s divisions and operating units for information security matters. Over his tenure at Fiserv Bob has led teams focused on information security engineering and operations for network infrastructure, distributed systems, and mainframe systems. He has also led teams focused on application security testing and consulting, information security strategy, and built Fiserv’s security operations center.

Bob joined Fiserv through the acquisition of CheckFree Corporation where he was responsible for information security strategy within CheckFree’s corporate function. Prior to joining CheckFree, Bob was IT Director for an architecture and engineering firm in Atlanta. He has over 25 years of experience in data networking and information systems and more than 20 years of which were spent exclusively in the security field. Bob holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.