Laura Loftus

Background

About Laura Loftus

An accomplished Information Security professional, possess diverse and solid progressive experience in delivering Information Security Administration for a large global financial services company. Deep understanding of the required entitlements for the various lines of businesses and maintained an excellent rapport with the business stakeholders. Supported over employees (both domestic and international), and over 100 mainframe applications. Worked in business critical environments, this included testing, quality assurance and production implementation of applications. Successfully coordinated the ISA involvement during Branch closings/openings and Company merges. Key Accomplishments:• Successfully implemented the Developers Access to Production (DAP) process. This included working with the application developers in creating emergency IDs (over 500), which would be released to trouble-shoot production problems. Once successfully tested, their production access was removed from their BAU IDs on multiple RACF LPARs. • Successfully transitioned the Security Administration function to an Offshore ISA team. This included traveling to the new site to test the connectivity to the environment, trained the ISA team on the day-to-day processes and coordinate communication to the businesses. • Played a pivotal role in the development of the entitlement reporting tool for the periodic entitlement reviews. This included profile maintenance, running audit reports and assisted the business with inquiries on the tool.• Coordinated the security for new and changes to existing applications from the testing phase through production implementation.