Illumant Team
Matija Siljak, CISA
Mat Siljak is Director, Advisory Services, at Illumant, where he drives compliance and enterprise security services at Illumant. Leveraging deep technology, regulatory, and risk management expertise, he has managed over 100 consulting engagements for firms ranging from Fortune 500 to pre-public companies along with numerous University clients. Mat has participated in many high profile conferences, including "Sarbanes-Oxley: Lessons from the Trenches" and "Sarbanes-Oxley and the CIO." He is CISA certified and is a member of ISACA, and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of InfraGard which provides channels for the exchange of information about infrastructure threats and vulnerabilities
Prior to joining Illumant, Mat co-founded OLOSEC Network Security Solutions, an information security consulting firm based in Menlo Park, California. He previously held the position of Chief Technology Officer for Bullhound, Ltd., a global technology hedge fund based in London.
Mat holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.
Cedric Bennett
Ced Bennett is Illumant's higher education practice leader and provides partner-level consulting to our clients. Ced has worked in senior management in higher education IT for thirty years. As Emeritus Director, Information Security Services for Stanford University, he led a department tasked with building awareness and driving change in individual and organizational behavior with regard to increasing institutional information security. Prior to joining Stanford he held IT leadership positions in the electronics, wholesale/retail, health care, and IT services industries.
Ced is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and seminars. He is currently a member of the Leadership Team of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force, and served as program chair for the 2004 Security Professionals Workshop. Among his many contributions to the field, he was instrumental in the creation and direction of the CAUSE Management Institute (now the EDUCAUSE Institute, both the Leadership and Management Programs) and served as a faculty member through 1997. He was also a founding faculty member of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute held in Australia serving on the faculty from 1998 to 2001. He was a member of the CAUSE Board of Directors from 1985 through 1989, serving as chairman in 1987.
Ced holds a B.A. in philosophy from San Francisco State University and has completed graduate work in philosophy, cybernetic systems and business.
Roger Smith, CISSP, CISA
Roger Smith is a Senior Manager in Illumant's IT Risk Services practice, where he develops Illumant's consulting methodologies and project manages Illumant's SOX IT, SAS70, and other IT risk and compliance projects. Prior to joining Illumant, Roger was the principal at Argos I/T Security Services, where he led SOX general controls and application audit teams at Siebel, Verity, MIPS, E-Loan, and Essex Property Trust. Before becoming a SOX expert, Roger had senior roles in three high growth startups, including Napster, the original online music company, where Roger was Executive Director of Operations. In that role Roger took that company from 10 people to 250 in six months and built out a world class data center from a single T1 line to one that pushed a sustained 1Gigabit 24x7. Roger also worked at NASA's Ames Research center for 15 years, making significant contributions to projects such as the first successful Martian Lander and the Lunar Prospector Satellite.
Roger holds CISSP and CISA certifications, and has deep expertise in various best practice IT frameworks. Roger earned a BS in Computer Science from Trinity University.
Mark F. Snodgrass, Ph.D., CISSP, CISA
Mark drives the development of Illumant's consulting tools and systems, which enable and facilitate internal processes and drive consulting quality and efficiency. Mark is responsible for the development of a proprietary suite of tools and the integration of open-source products. He has focused on developing superior statistical analysis tools for vulnerability detection, IDS, denial of service prevention, and log review. Mark joined Illumant (then MindSource) as a Senior Security Engineer in 2003. Prior to that he co-founded OLOSEC Network Security Solutions. Over the past years, he has worked on hundreds of network security assessments and dozens of compliance audits.
During his tenure as a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, Mark researched large-scale stochastic systems, developing specialized statistical analysis tools and novel data-mining techniques.
Mark holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, all from Stanford University. He is CISSP certified by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium and CISA certified by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association
Chang Kim
Chang oversees Illumant's recruiting and internal operations functions, including methodology development, business process modeling, and operational reporting. Chang leverages strong expertise in operational process engineering, customer service, and best practice IT and management frameworks.
Prior to joining Illumant, Chang served as Director of Operations at Zyan Communications, a nationwide provider of business DSL, broadband, and Internet services. In that role, he implemented all operational initiatives and special projects. His management responsibilities encompassed customer service, operations, information services, software development, and business process engineering. Prior to Zyan, Chang held operational management positions for the McMaster-Carr Supply Company, a private $2 billion international hardware distributor.
Chang holds a B.S. in Economics from Stanford University.