Diane Brown

Diane Brown
Diane Brown
VP, IT Risk Management
ULTA Beauty
Diane Brown is the VP of IT Risk Management at Ulta Beauty. She's been in Ulta's IT Risk Management segment since 2008 and took the VP position in January 2022. In this role, Brown is accountable for the security of the retail stores, cyber-security, infrastructure, security/network engineering, data protection, third-party risk assessments, Directory Services, SOX & PCI compliance, application security, security awareness and Identity Management. Brown has more than three decades of IT experience in the retail environment and has honed her expertise in information technology leadership with a focus on risk management for the past 15 years. Brown holds a Bachelorʼs degree in Information Security.

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Sunday
January 12
2:00 pm3:00 pm
Expo, Level 1, Expo Stage 2

Did you know, according to a recent threat report, about 35% of the breaches worked on last year involved business disruption, and brand damage occurred in about twice as many cases than the previous year? Changes to threat landscape such as new internet-facing exposures, vulnerable IoT sensors and AI-related threats can exacerbate this situation.  In fact, retail and hospitality is one… Read more