April 28, 2015 By Pamela Jones < 1 min read

Jamie Giroux is the vice president of security compliance and audit at Maximus, a provider of managed health care, human services and workforce management within the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Giroux’s main responsibility is ensuring the proper security controls are in place at Maximus and validating that those programs adequately protect the company’s assets, data and people.

In this C-Suite Spotlight interview, Giroux discusses the challenges for security at a large organization with a global presence, the ways in which security has changed over the past few years and the areas he will focus on in the future as security continues to evolve.

Watch the interview below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxjqpM5VlM

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