Octavio Herrera, an IT Security Manager at Aflac, leads a team tasked with maintaining the security and integrity of Aflac’s data and IT Infrastructure. Herrera is responsible for ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry requirements (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, etc) while leveraging security technology to provide solutions for corporate users and associate field force.
Two current projects that he is working on include the implementation of the company's B2B file transfer strategy and leveraging their SSL VPN infrastructure to give help-desk personnel the ability to remotely support field force agents.
Herrera earned his master's degree in Information Assurance from Norwich University. In 1993, he managed a team tasked with the distribution, installation and support of computer resources provided by the U.S. Olympic committee for the events and media coverage of the 1993 Olympic festival held in the city of San Antonio.
