Randy Romes
Randy is a Principal in the Cybersecurity Consulting team at CLA. Randy leads a team of technology and industry specialists providing IT audits and security assessments for clients in a wide range of industries and diverse operating environments and has provided independent security assessments and IT audits for Credit Unions, health care and life sciences, non-profits, and state and local government for over 26 years. He is responsible for the continuing development of the open-source, *nix, and Windows applications used in all of the security audits, and he leads the firms PCI-QSA audit practice.
Randy has been an instructor of IT and Cybersecurity Risk Management at the CUNA Management School at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, ACUARP (formerly ACUIA) national and regional meetings, a variety of State Government Finance Officers Associations, and the Minnesota Government IT Symposium. Randy is frequent speaker at national conferences and training events.
Randy has been a consultant at CLA for twenty-six years and brings a strong background in computer technology, physics and education. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified in Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC) professional, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a PCI-Qualified Security Assessor (PCI-QSA), and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). He has a master’s degree in educational technology from the University of Saint Thomas, and a Bachelor of Science degree in education from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
