Dr. Kimberlee Brannock
Senior Security Advisor, HP Worldwide Security and Analytics Practice
As a Senior Security Advisor, Dr. Kimberlee Ann Brannock brings extensive knowledge and
experience in Cyber Security, Cyber Law, compliance, risk, governance, IT, and privacy to
help drive and shape HP’s worldwide security and analytics practice and HP’s cyber
security leadership position.
As well as working with the HP Cyber Security business, HP R&D, HP Labs, HP Business
Units, HP Product Teams, and HP Global Functions to ensure HP’s leadership role in cyber
security, Dr. Brannock also educates clients on the importance of cyber security including
such items as cyber security governance (exempli gratia (e.g.): security policies, security
procedures, processes, standards and specifications) risk, compliance, cyber security end
to end, and cyber law for imaging and printing (includes devices, data, documents),
endpoint devices and for the Cyber Security industry.
During her 20+-year tenure at HP, Dr. Brannock has led the HP initiative toward stronger
cyber security, stronger privacy, better and stronger cyber security governance, risk,
compliance, better understanding and adherence to cyber law, and information security,
including better and stronger cyber security services, processes, and procedures while
continuing to educate on cyber security and continuing to drive cyber security leadership.
Dr. Brannock served on the HP Compliance Community Forum, the HP Federal Compliance
Council, the HP Regulatory Compliance Review Board, the HP Policy Review Team, and the
HP PCI Council (pre-split), and the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors
representing HP to drive data security standards.
Pre HP Company split (approximately $122 Billion USD per annum company), Dr.
Brannock was an HP Cybersecurity Manager, leading several global Cyber Security
Initiatives including the WW PCI Program, and was selected to lead Separation
Management Office activities prior to the Hewlett Packard split, focusing on Cyber Security
with the aim of successfully supporting both companies leading to the successful split as
it related to all things Cyber Security. This led to determining the Cyber Security function
in existence would move over in its entirety to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading to a
huge opportunity to build out the Cyber Security global function from scratch for HP Inc,
which Dr. Brannock seized.
Dr. Brannock moved into the role of Senior Security Advisor in 2017 after serving as HP’s
WW Cyber Security Manager for Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security.
In this respective role, she built HP’s Cyber Security operation from the ground up, as a
result of Hewlett-Packard Company splitting from a $122 Billion USD company into two
companies both worth $50+ billion USD each and as referenced above.
Before HP, Dr. Brannock began her career by first working for the largest retailer in the
world in an academic collaboration between the respective retailer and university, and by
building a family dot-com retail business, which her family liquidated and sold in mid-2000. In tandem, Dr. Brannock continued to work in technology and cyber security, advising with several companies, including HP (prior to joining HP), to help them
understand issues such as IT consumption, Cyber Security, governance, risk, compliance,
IT and Cyber Security budgeting, IT and Cyber Security strategy, Cyber Security best
practices, Cyber Security standards, innovation, and how to include Cyber Security in the
respective innovation, IT implementation, IT operations and Cyber Security operations.
Dr. Brannock holds degrees in accounting, corporate accounting, business, business
administration, management information systems, and a professional doctorate
specializing in technology and law (jurisprudence) for which she received a distinguished
scholar award. In addition, Dr. Brannock was a PhD Candidate in Information Technology,
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, and is a Doctoral (Doctor of Science) candidate
in Cyber Security where Dr. Brannock was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa
Phi.
She also holds several credentials, including the CGRCM-IT, CISA, CSOXM, and PMP.
Dr. Brannock participates in several organizations including ISACA, ISA, IEEE, ITI, IAPP,
(ISC)², SANS, ISSA, PMI, and PCI SSC. Dr. Brannock serves on security advisory boards and
served more than two years on the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors,
which is a standards setting body (including data security standards) for the payment card
industry. Dr. Brannock currently sits on the 3GO Security Advisory Board.
