What Happened?
Chicago, IL-based Health Care Service Corporation Resigned Raymond Biondo as Chief Information Security Officer
About the Company
Founded in 1936 and with nearly 14 million members, HCSC is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States and fourth largest overall, operating through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. We provide health coverage through our Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans and dental, life and disability insurance through Dearborn National. We are greater than our nearly 20,000 employees, 60 local offices and state-of-the-art technology, including two Tier IV data centers — the industry`s highest reliability level — that provide the speed and data security to meet our customers` current and future business needs. We are one of the most respected companies for compliance, diversity and community outreach in the country. Our Blues Plans were pioneers in their states, as they were the first to provide coverage for a number of procedures — ranging from heart and bone marrow transplants, to cancer and leukemia treatments. We have continued our tradition of industry leadership to this day.
About the Person
Raymond Biondo has been CISO of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) since 2006. Mr. Biondo's responsibilities include information security for the HCSC enterprise and information access regulatory compliance. He is also responsible for overseeing access control, IT Risk Management, Internal Controls Governance, and regulatory compliance. He has quickly accelerated the progress of a very large enterprise disaster recovery program as well as developed a complete enterprise business continuity program. He has established a distributed professional disaster recovery function, created dynamic enterprise weekly reporting suite for senior officers and base lined measurable risk. He has established an innovative organization design, which incorporates the non-technology internal business partners in the IS decision and development cycle. Mr. Biondo has developed the Information Security services within HCSC to become recognized as one of the best protection services in healthcare. Prior to joining HCSC, Mr. Biondo served as a senior vice president at Aon Corporation.
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