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Jason Benedict is the Associate Vice President for IT and the global CISO for Fordham University in New York. With over 31 years of experience providing business and academic leadership to Higher Education, he has developed world-class expertise in implementing technology at multi-campus institutions and understands the crucial role IT serves in developing an organization's competitive advantage. For the past 17 years, Mr. Benedict has been chiefly responsible for creating the strategic vision of the Information Security Office and along with a team of dedicated IT Security professionals, developing a culture of security and maintaining operational responsibility for all areas of Information Security, IT Risk Mitigation and Data Integrity at the University. Mr Benedict brings to this role a robust set of proven skills and talents honed over a long career including past responsibilities for Enterprise Architecture, Networking, Information Systems Planning, Operations and Customer Service. Mr. Benedict's expertise in vendor management and negotiations, cost containment, staff development and collaboration coupled with years of hands-on system design and integration makes him a sought after conference speaker, consultant and advisor to a myriad of Colleges and Universities across the United States. Mr. Benedict is a member of the U.S. Secret Service New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, the FBI's Infragard program and the exclusive Research and Education Networking - Information Sharing and Analysis Center. In 2006 Mr. Benedict was profiled in Campus Technology Magazine for innovative thinking in IT. In 2010 Mr. Benedict was named one of the top 25 "Ones to Watch"​ by CIO Magazine. Mr. Benedict gives back to the IT community as Chairman of the American Jesuit Colleges and Universities Conference on Information Technology Management's IT Security group. Specialties: vendor management and negotiations cost containment staff development collaboration hands-on system design and integration