Ready to optimize your business's security and privacy?
We provide technical executive services, delivering C-level expertise in data security, privacy, and AI strategies. We're here to help organizations craft AI-native strategies that are comprehensive, low-risk, and cost-effective. We offer fractional, project-based, and retainer vCISO and vDPO options, giving you flexible and right-sized expertise, regardless of where you're at in your journey.
About Global Optima LLC
Expertise
Deep knowledge and industry-wide perspective on privacy, security, and AI
AI-Native Solutions
We were doing AI before it was cool. And we're up on the latest tools, risks, and business accelerators
Flexibility
Short-term and long-term services tailored to your specific needs and budget
Results
Proven track record of successful implementations at every scale and phase of company maturity
Our Approach
We recognize that every client has unique needs, priorities, and regulatory landscapes. We begin every engagement by working with our clients to identify key business outcomes, then choose success metrics that let you check progress every step of the way. The right metrics make it easy to work backwards to a customized and measureable strategy and implementation plan.
Privacy, security, and AI are complex technical spaces, and there is no one-size-fits-all recipe for success. Industry, maturity, geography, and many other factors are crucial to creating the best plan for your business. We help you ask the right questions, navigate the sea of hype and cookie cutter advice, focus on the highest ROI and reduce wasted work.
Our Founder
Dr. Parker-Wood has created privacy solutions at scale at Amazon for GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, EUDA, and more. And she has delivered security and privacy solutions at early stage startups where every dollar and second counts.
She has some of the broadest security and privacy perspective out there. During her time at AWS, Symantec, and Clearly AI, she worked closely with 50+ privacy and security customers from a wide range of industries, sizes, and geographies, and got the insider perspective on real problems and solutions.
She has defined AI security standards and AI data governance at Amazon, run an applied AI/ML research lab at Symantec, driven and implemented the security roadmap as CISO at Clearly AI, and taken many AI features from research concept to production. She knows how to craft an AI strategy that delivers value and reduces risks.
She bridges the gap between deep technical expertise and business savvy. She's driven privacy program overhauls, written successful funding pitches, done executive briefings and technical sales, defined product roadmaps, and set pricing. She gets what it takes to deliver business results, and is here to help at every phase.
Selected Media
Your Arch-Nemesis is a Data Scientist: What's the Difference Between Security and Privacy Work?
Privacy Star Insights: Aleatha Parker-Wood
Protecting Users: When Security and Privacy Collide
They are listening: Children and voice recognition data
Services Offered
vCISO and vDPO Services
You know you need security and privacy, but aren't ready for a full time hire. We can define and build your security and privacy program and metrics, partner with engineering and IT staff to manage risks to your business, and even help you interview and hire a full time security engineer when you're ready.
Privacy Strategy and Implementation
We pick up where your legal team stops, and give you the right questions to ask them. Expert guidance on privacy engineering, process, and hiring strategy to implement an end-to-end privacy program.
Data Governance
Data governance should give you confidence in your privacy and security, not slam the brakes on your business. We offer data governance assessments and strategic planning to help you understand the risks you face and make sure you have the security and privacy you need, when you need it.
AI Implementation Strategy
We separate AI hype from force multipliers. Strategic AI adoption, ethical AI governance, and implementation support to leverage artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively.
Fractional Executive Services
- Practical solutions in plain English: Security could always be better, and security is full of jargon. We'll talk to you in clear business-centric language, and help you understand what's good enough at each stage of your growth. We'll help you identify business risks, and understand what investments are most important when.
- Executive experience, hands-on implementation: We won't leave you with a slide deck and nothing to show for it. We can do hands on implementation work, training, and AI automation to get you to a fully functional security program.
- Outsource the paperwork: Security questionnaires from your customers? Cookie banners? We've got you covered. We work with you to understand the fundamentals of your business and product, and then explain it like you would.
Our Privacy Services
- Getting Started, Right: You should be iterating on your MVP, not your privacy strategy and processes. What should you and your team know about privacy before collecting user data? What questions should you ask that lawyer you've got on retainer?
- Hiring a Privacy Team: We help you define the scope, roles, and critical skills for your first few hires, and write your interview questions. We can even serve as a part of your interview loops.
- Implementing Privacy Engineering Basics: We can advise on best practices and architectures for data collection, inventory and cataloguing of personal data, personal data deletion, and more.
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies: What is differential privacy? What about federated learning? Does your business need them?
Our Data Governance Services
- Risk Assessments for Data Security and Privacy: Comprehensive evaluation of your current data security and privacy posture. Do you have the right processes and tools to protect your sensitive data without slowing down your business?
- Strategic Security and Privacy Planning: Develop multi-year roadmaps aligned with business milestones, ensuring you know what security and privacy controls you need, and when you need them.
- Governance & Compliance: Establish security governance frameworks that meet common requirements, such as SOC2 and ISO 27001, so you can run your business with confidence.
Our AI Implementation Services
- AI Strategy & Roadmap Development: Create an AI strategy aligned with your business objectives and roadmap. Identify the highest-impact use cases, avoid common mistakes, and develop phased implementation plans.
- Ethical and Compliant AI Governance: AI governance frameworks, tools, and policies should be nimble enough to handle emerging regulatory requirements and ethical risks, and thorough enough to give you confidence.
- AI Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Comprehensive evaluation of AI-related risks including ethical concerns, privacy and security implications, and operational challenges.
- AI Training and Implementation Support: Developer training programs and hands-on guidance. Prompt engineering, evaluation and testing, and technology limitations.
Get in Touch
Ready to optimize your privacy, security, and AI strategies? Contact us to discuss how our technical executive services can benefit your organization.
info@globaloptima.com