Edward Lafferty

Experience

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  Accenture

  Jul 1996 - Apr 1999

  Consultant

  Consulted on multiple technical projects, performing various roles including business analysis, application development, quality assurance testing, process consulting, production support, and end-user training.

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  The Hartford

  Feb 2001 - now

  Lead a 20+ person team, made up of employees and contractors, accountable for the support, expansion and overall strategy for the company’s Directory Services technologies, including Active Directory and other supporting identity and access management systems.This role includes supporting all Logical Access controls, with an emphasis on access recertification’s, covering all SOx applications and infrastructure.Accountable for enterprise projects aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the current systems and reducing risk associated with logical access. Projects include analyzing 2 Factor authentication, expanding the footprint of OIM and ensuring all underlying technologies are current and stable. Show less Accountable for ensuring appropriate and consistent design, testing and deficiency reporting for all IT SOx controls. Led a team of 8 SOx auditors and ensured all controls were thoroughly documented, tested consistently, and that results were reported to executive IT leadership in a consumable fashion. Played a lead role in redesigning the logical access recertification controls to close gaps around completeness and timeliness. Also accountable for supporting key business areas in remediating existing internal audit issues, providing consulting support on necessary remediation activities and helping to design controls and solutions that balanced risk and operational efficiencies. Show less Accountable for driving the business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities of the Corporate entities. Consulted with all corporate functions on ensuring communication protocols and recovery solutions were in place for people, process and technology. Helped design disaster recovery solutions for critical systems and facilitated table top walk-thru tests for both process and technology recovery. Designed the emergency communication system to allow for site wide communications in the event of a large scale disruption. Show less

  • Director, Information Protection - Directory Services

    Jan 2014 - now

  • Director, Enterprise IT Compliance, IT SOx Control Lead

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  • Director, Business Resilience Office

    Jan 2007 - Dec 2010

  • Assistant Director, Corporate Technology

    Feb 2001 - Dec 2006